I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

We have art to save ourselves from the truth.

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me

We have art to save ourselves from the truth.

Minsky's Second Law: Don't just do something. Stand there.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air — however slight — lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

There is no idea so simple and powerful that you can't get zillions of people to misunderstand it.