I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Sunlight is painting.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Once you label me you negate me.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.