If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Give up trying to make me give up

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

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

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.