It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-cen…

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe t…

All that business was awful, it was a fuckin' humiliation. One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were, and that's what I resent. I did…

'I mean, come on, hello! The way I see it, I'm not that big of a prize'.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a sage.