Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

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.

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

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.

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

The greatest universe is the one within you.

1. Reading becomes knowledge.2. Applying knowledge becomes experience.Most people have done 1 but they forget 2. These people blow too much without effective result.

Folk is bare bones music.

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached to certain stories that don't let you go.