Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

When the audience knows you know better it's satire but when they think you can't do any better it's corn.

The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.

Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

I get nervous for everything - literally everything.

It's a crazy feeling when people know who you are and respect your game. It's much appreciated.

I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing.