My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.