It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.

Sincerity is moral truth.

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?