Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies.

The main weapon of the devil is disillusionment

Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.

Some plague the people with too long sermons for the faculty of listening is a tender thing and soon becomes weary and satiated.

I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is the devil's workshop. I like to focus on something.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.