Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

This way of life is worth defending.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

I’m filthy rich!

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

I like to take it easy.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

Water is my drink.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women’s movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Music is really driving my whole life.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.