Did you ever have a sister? did you?

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way.

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.