“Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.”

Discussion in America means dissent.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.

The unicorn is a mythical beast.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Americans want to go to heaven without dying.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.

If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Live on the edge. I’m only free because I’m not afraid. Everything I was afraid of already happened to me.

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

And here, on the edge I look below where there are so many many unknowns.

I dare you to run to the edge of your limits – and then jump.

Satire is giving a sharp edge to a blunt truth.

These sharp edges you left behind, they cut so deep; and I guess maybe I am just not dying enough.

Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

The edges of our heart hold the most beautiful memories.