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

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.

I drink to make other people interesting.

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

The important source of finance is now commercial papers, bonds, and so on.

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

Relax, don't worry, have a home brew.

I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

We should not treat people as they treat us, we should treat them better.