Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Part of Creator occupies outer part of universe.

If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell to get them back. You will and we're in the process of it right now.

I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Could you get O positive this time? That's my favorite.

Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.

In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.

I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

Country's hip; it's cool music.