Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.

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.

A young mark twain on the make: "I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

A camera is just like a woman, as long as you have one of them hanging around your neck....life is just fine

Discipline is needed in our temperance.

President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

I believe that music is God's voice.

Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'

Lies are essential to humanity.

When things go awry, trust powers the generators until the problem is fixed.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.