Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Suicide is... the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

Richard Nixon means never having to say you're sorry

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English

People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.