Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.

In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line.