I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.