The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.