Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.

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.

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

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.

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

You know who makes a great first impression? Liars.

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.

Right now I feel like playing as long as I can, As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.

Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.