If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.

In the end, everything is a gag.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.