A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

Love is someone you can be silly with

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.