It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.