“Reality is something you rise above.”

“The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”

“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all…

“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”

“Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.”

“Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.”

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.”

“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”

“A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.”