I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.