Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
There are no nail salons in Paris - it is very expensive to do a manicure. I sometimes get one done.
The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.
When I lived in Paris in the early '80s, I had the occasion to hang out with Prince Albert of Monaco quite a few times.
Paris is a Roach Motel for top American journalists: They check in, having won the plum foreign posting, but never leave.
Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.
Is Paris Hilton even an actress? I'm thinking no.
I pay lots of homages. I wanted to pay tribute to a leading Iranian writer, Gholam - Hossein Sa'edi, who is buried in Paris - he is an Iranian Arthur Miller. He is of a similar stature, and his work is similar to that of Arthur Miller.
A few of the influences on my career so far have been Isamu Noguchi, Irving Penn, and seeing the riots of 1968 in Paris.
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.
In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.
So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
My grandmother used to get her shoes made in Paris in the '30s, and they would be shipped to her in Singapore.
The sights you can find here in Paris are second to none.
I always dreamed of working in Paris, of going to the Coupole and slapping Picasso or Giacometti on the shoulder.
I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
