"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

"The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill."

"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."

"If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts."

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

"I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it."

"I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking."

"I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself."