We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

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

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Once you label me you negate me.

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

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

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

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

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

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.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.