Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

Bonar Law never led his Party. He was always looking over his shoulder to see if he was being followed.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing.I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.

she said, these dead petals, honey, brought me here

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.