What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.