It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.