My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.

You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

What a sad business is being funny!