"Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be..." - Quote by Winston Churchill

“In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.”

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.”

“For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.”

“Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.”

“There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.”

“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.”

“Architecture is crystallized music.”

“Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.”