An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.