A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

'Are we done? You can avoid us all again and we'll keep talking about you behind your back.'

I swallowed hard and said as calmly as possible, “There’s been a murder. I don’t know what happened. The address is two-two-zero three Devonshire Court.

To transform yourself, you don't need to do big things. Just do small things in big way. Transformation will follow you!

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

As cheesy and melodramatic as it might sound, love excites me more than anything... in all its forms.

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch...

Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance.

Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.