To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Sunlight is painting.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

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