The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
