Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing..

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me..

What can go wrong will go wrong..

I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the pa….

I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but n….

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me..

My wife is my protector. Without her, I'm nothing. She wants to please me, and I want to please her. We've been together over 53 years..

I've lived my life again just telling it to you..

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more..

I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am tw….

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional..

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me..

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at time….

I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me to know that that part of my childhood ….

A canteen I remember vividly, and maybe one other thing, I can't remember. And I knew then that he had bought them in an army surplus store that day ….

I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imaginati….

I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me o….

My life didn't please me, so I created my life..

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one wa….