"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."

Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.

I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?

If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

The most heinous crime is to disappoint those who trust in you

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.]

The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.