Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

The unicorn is a mythical beast.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.