Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.