"The beautiful is that which fills us with
despair."—Paul Valéry “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do
anything.”—Marilyn "All bad poetry is sincere."—Oscar Wilde "Thank God I'm an atheist."—Luis Buñuel
“Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.”—Zsa Zsa "Never do an eating scene with a method actor—they spit
all over you."—Bogie "It's your job to betray
the whole human race."—Henry Miller "Even Cary Grant isn't Cary Grant."—Cary Grant "The young are completely stupid."—Salvador Dalí "I was beastly but never coarse. A high-class sort of
heel."—George Sanders "One should never offer the public a delicate perfume.
It exasperates them. Give them only carefully selected garbage."—Charles
Baudelaire "The only way to avoid Hollywood is to live
there."—Igor Stravinsky "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city."—George Burns "Sin Bravely."—Martin Luther "Part of it went for gambling, part for horses, part
for women. The rest I wasted."—George Raft to the IRS "Show me a happy set and I'll show you a dull
movie."—Katherine Hepburn "Days off."—Spencer Tracy, on what he looked for
in a script “I have nothing to say, but I insist on saying it.”—Federico
Fellini "Those are my principles, and if you don’t like
them…well, I have others."—Groucho
Last
week’s winner of the Nobel for proving Einstein’s quantum theory of particles
(deplored by Einstein himself as “spooky action at a distance”) was John
Clauser, who in his acceptance speech said, “I confess even to this day that I
still don’t understand quantum mechanics.”
As
a natural fool (see Fools in Gorgeousness) I have
a hard innocence at my center that will never learn anything, rather like my alter-ego, for
whom let us pray.
