We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.

In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.

We tear ourselves inside out for something the world may love, then base our worth on that.

Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

Guys I’m kind of nutty, but you have to understand that that’s all just me being myself.

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.

In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.