Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

Who is a rebellious person? The rebellious person is one who does not bother about the society at all. He simply lives through his innermost core

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day.

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.