My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.

People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

I love Bridget Fonda.

I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.

[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.

I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.