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.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

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.

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you find the tunnel that leads to the Red Bull. There be a trick to it, of course.

If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.

The more prepared I am, the better my future.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.

All women are natural born espionage agents.

Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.

A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds...it makes ice.

If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?