Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

What is it about men that make women so lonely?

Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.

There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.

Everybody wants to collaborate with me. I was going to collaborate with Whitney Houston, but she died. Very sad, man. We were very good friends.