You stop believing in wishes when the only one you want to make can never come true.

I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen, " he said. "We're all just out here hoping for the best.

What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered when other people pointed them out? I was almost envious.

Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.

For you, I wish for second chances

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

The world of wonders!

No matter how many women I’ve kissed over the years, your lips are the ones that still haunt me.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills.... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

While there's life, there is hope.