“I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.”

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Kiss me with your eyes.

Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.

Look poor, think rich.

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. … so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.

Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !