"A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella."

"All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe."

"Today, people in Baghdad can watch themselves being bombed - what a horrible, magical world we live in!"

"Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are."

"It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times."

"Make money, money, honestly if you can;if not, by any means at all, make money."

"When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks."

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

"If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it."

"Never confuse movement with action."

"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."

"I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died."