"Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

You mellow too much you ripen and rot.

If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.

Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I didn't go to Paris until I was a grown-up in 1965. And when I went to Paris, it was the Paris I knew only from American movies.

But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.