The business of polishing my shoes satisfies my soul.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

The purpose of my life is to put off dying as long as possible.

All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.