Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Sunlight is painting.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Give up trying to make me give up

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.