Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.

Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy.

Everyone wants peace - and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.

The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.

We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!

My painting does not come from the easel.

I eat my heart out alone.

Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.

The Lord help me to press after God forever

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

I know what it takes to put on a good show for the fans.

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes