Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

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

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.