"There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken."

"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."

"Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style."

"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."

"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."

"Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live."

"Humanity, you never had it to begin with."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."

"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."

"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

"If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence."

"We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar."

"Never get out of bed before noon."

"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."