Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

My talent matters more to me than the money does.

MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.

The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut’s five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me.

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.