Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

We want to be on the offensive without being offensive.

...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.