Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one.

What is it about death that bothers me? Probably the hours.

We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices.