Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

I drink to make other people interesting.

Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Women in India experience much worse suffering, humiliation and slavery in all spheres than even the untouchables.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

I am invincible, as long as I'm alive.

When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.