"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Said Oscar Levant, in what is (by far) the most popular of his quotes at goodreads. I'm noticing Oscar Levant this morning, because the composer Philip Glass, interviewed about books here, is raving about his Levant's "Memoirs of an Amnesiac." ("It�s a hilariously funny book... What was it like to be in Hollywood in the 1930s and �40s? You have to read Oscar Levant, I tell ya.")

Other Levant quotes at goodreads:

�The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.�

"In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great."

"Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome."

�Ballet is the faeries' baseball.�