you are only what you are when no one is watching.

Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more.

Never exaggerate your faults your friends will attend to that.

There's nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

Now if you went to someone's house to look for them, you would be a psychopath.

Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.