When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right