"An egotist is a self-made man who worships his creator."
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is a wonder." Maurits Cornelius Escher
"It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel."
"There's always one person on every gig who does your secret sign to you. They come up afterwards and get hold of you — always here, on the elbow, where it's really secure—and go, 'I know.'" Ian Dury
"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation." Billy Wilder
"What is this, an audience or an oil painting?" Milton Berle
"Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets." Dudley Moore
"Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness." Stanislaw Lem