By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

One does not go to Moscow to get fat.