Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.

I'm afraid of Americans; I'm afraid of the world; I'm afraid I can't help it.

He can be a great player in this league if he learns how to say two words: "I'm full."

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

You saved me life, she tried to tell him. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and now I'm yours. The me that's me right now is yours. Always.