Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
At a friend’s house in Greenwich Village I remember talking of the frustration of trying to find the precise word for one’s thoughts, saying that the ordinary dictionary was inadequate. ‘Surely a syst...
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to...
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down
Why should poetry have to make sense?
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
We think too much and feel too little.
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.
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician