“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”

“For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”

“It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.”

“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.”

“A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.”

“An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.”

“Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.”