These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume
Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.
You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.
When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of. There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn't in the way I originally thought it was going to be.
I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause. It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.
Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.