"Hope, that star of life's tremulous ocean."

“It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.”

“I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.”

“From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis Presley. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles.”

“Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.”

“In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.”

“I bet you there's a lot of guys who dream of having a girl that fine.”

“Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.”

“You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.”