An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.