Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Nothing is black or white.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

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.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.