don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Beauty is the manifestation of love.

The story goes that one day Socrates stood gazing at a stall that sold allkinds of wares. Finally he said, “What a lot of things I don’t need!

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

How you behave in one place, will help in surprising ways later.

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.

I have a problem with the strip that runs along the bottom of the news programs. Don't these idiots who run the news programs know we don't want to read? That's why we're watching TV.

With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.