Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.