We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.

If you owe too much on American Express, and your Diner's Club notes are too hard, take a loan on your Visa, and pay it off with your MasterCard!

Every boss started as a worker.

You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.