We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

To be weird! That is my goal!

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

A love of fashion makes the economy go round.

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Donald Trump's leadership, decision-making and problem solving will restore America's role as the undeniable and unquestioned world leader.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.