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"I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'"
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."
"Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!"
"You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to."
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me."
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."
"I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing."
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
"A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation."
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception."
"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
"In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first."
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."
"The devil's most devilish when respectable."
"I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100."
"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."