I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

I've never met a person I've couldn't call a beauty.

Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.

I don't feel like I get germs when I hold money. Money has a certain kind of amnesty. I feel, when I'm holding money, that the dollar bill has no more germs on it than my hands do. When I pass my hand over money, it becomes perfectly clean to me. I don't know where it's been - who's touched it and with what - but that's all erased the moment I touch it.

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.