There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.