The Scots are very hospitable; almost as hospitable as the Americans.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. Hubert Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134

Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.

Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities.

Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.