The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.