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My brain? That's my second favorite organ.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Romance is the sweetening of the soulWith fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.