That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

And of all the rooms in my childhood, God was the largestand most empty.

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.

The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way.

I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's.

I've been making a lot of pasta. It's easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over.

It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.

One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.