Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.