Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Politics is show business for ugly people.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.