I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.

It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.