The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.