For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for.

If you really want peace in any world you have to learn to say nothing.

Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move.

What place, then, for a creator?

Getting out of tight jams was his specialty.

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

I could write a book on the things I've done drunk.

By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.