When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!

It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser.