It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.

My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.