If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.