To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

Trust is a lot to ask of someone.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

I've been into photography for years and I do it as often as possible. I'm just trying to develop myself.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.