You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

Youth is wasted on the young.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.