Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

Life is short, the art long.

The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

I can fall asleep at any time and wake up at any time.

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

I'm too disorganized.

Survival in any meaningful sense is the key issue of our time

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives