Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

​It's Hard, Not to Fail, but, there is Always a Chance of Success. Of course, there is No Chance of Success, if You didn't Try.

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

You love me?” … “Yes. More than life.

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

Anytime odds get stacked up against me, I feel like it's in me to beat it

Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.

It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.