- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --

When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

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.