Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

All our geese are swans.

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

All good art is an indiscretion.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.

Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.