You are not who others say you are. You are who God says you are..

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that ….

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you..

Be classy. Anything but trashy..

Power interrupts. Uninterruptible power interrupts absolutely..

There's something bad in everything good and something good in everything bad..

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are..

A woman only can understand a woman..

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better..

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure..

Have you ridden over anyone you shouldn't?.

Washington's a cesspool of money..

You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to your limits..

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slav….

I've never really looked back..

You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian.

No one is ever going to be as good as I was.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me..

I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at..

Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes..

Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more..