An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.