“The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.”

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone’s wrapping fish in it.

What’s good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.!

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

Don’t be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Today’s younger generation is no worse than my own.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx’s Capital.

Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.

While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.

I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn’t matter much. But people want to label everything… So I guess I seem indifferent in that way.

Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

The loneliness caused by not hearing Ren’s voice… I felt it deep in the night. I felt it deeper than anyone else. Even now at times I look back.

When all else fails, read the instructions.

We experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.