It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.

If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?

A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.

Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

Be like a flower, give hope to the world!

I had a million-dollar arm, but I wasn't thinking enough about how to be a pitcher.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.