Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.