"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with."

"Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that."

"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go."

"The river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural."

"All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead."

"I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time."