Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

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

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Nothing is black or white.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.