It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.