Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

I've been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or anything. It's just an agreeable thing to do, and I recommend it to everybody.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.