Live today, for tomorrow we die.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

If you're a writer, you're always working.

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.

Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.

I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life.