I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

My work has always been the product of my time.

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.