What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

This incompleteness is all we have.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.