There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.

Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

I see the glass half full...but of poison.

I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.