It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.

If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.