That's the way it goes with the whole human thing - nobody wants to take a risk. But to be entertaining is not risky, everybody likes to be entertained.

It's the 'National Enquirer' for the ad people

I consider myself a Chicagoan. I came here to study at the Art Institute in 1951 when I was 18 years old, and I've been here ever since. I still think Chicago is the best city in the country.

There should be no tenacity of insistence or obstinate insistence of any kind. If there is any tenacity, it should be the kind that will go away if you tell it to!

Immense self-made wealth is the evidence of a grandly rich mind

Fate is a lazy man’s excuse for avoiding curiosity.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

If [Moroccans born in Holland] commit serious crimes - I believe we should strip them indeed of the Dutch nationality and send them back to Morocco as Morocco does.

Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out