The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

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.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!