The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
Has every oyster a different taste?
They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.
I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.
I like my whisky old and my women young.
Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.
It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick
We have an epidemic of fatherlessness here, and that's what I agree with the president [Barack Obama] on, and we should be doing more to promote and protect marriage as between a man and a women for the needs of our children.
Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert. . . that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.