I like the Hotel Costes, on rue Saint Honore, a boutique hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre and the Tuileries. I love the dark, moody decor as well as the fantastic scented, candlelit pool in the basement.
I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea of the most beautiful human being he could imagine, the creation of a saint in literature.
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.
I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.
I'm no saint, and I don't want to come across like one, but there is not a day that goes by that I'm not doing something for someone else with a very large chunk of my time.
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.
