Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

For what is truth? In matters of relogion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions.

At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart.

[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

The only way I'll ever get hurt in the casino is if there's an earthquake and a slot machine falls on my foot.

We have the best congressmen that money can buy.

I've never said flange to a monkey!

Time is a face on the water.