Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

Send me the half that's got my keys.

Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.

Guten Morgen, mon ami!Heute ist es schönes Wetter!Charmé de vous voir ici!Never saw you looking better!

We should all learn to take things easily - other people's things.

What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice.

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.

O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music.

No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you?

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.