`Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.'

'Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal - there's the trick!'

'Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!'

'For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.'

You know, whenever you do something new and original, people run to see it because it's different. Then, if it happens to be successful, the studios rush to im…

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

'When you are creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain't the limit.'