The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

Frenchman: Germans with good food.

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.