You can't go by what the governments say or do. It's not the governments. It's on the street where there's more hatred of Americans in Britain than in France.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again.

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.

I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed.

I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.

I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony Randall's in it, it can't be bad.

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

The prayer from the heart is a great power.

Simplicity allows a measure of freedom which the complexities of modern life greedily consume – freedom to think, to reflect, to create, to serve and be sincerely generous with our time and presence.

No blue-blooded family, however degenerate, could have produced the idiots one finds in any parliament.

The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance, when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

I really got the best of education , and arts and music and summer camp. I had it great.

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

I have supped full with horrors.