An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
I think Wallace Hall is an imbecile.
I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!
The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.