Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking including thinking about not thinking.

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull it may be naive it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese milks leap toward immortality.

When you re read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Cheese is milks leap toward immortality.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man but I knew how to try to become one.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.