"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.

Destiny cutsthe cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.

[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross.

A country is judged by the actions at the top. Such is the way across the world. Nations are judged by their rulers, and not by those that live within the borders.

No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're not going to get rich, so you might as well play chess.

Such poopitations of the heart as you would not believe.

The one thing that you can say about the new Cabinet Donald Trump is putting together. That seems to be one of the coherent themes. They're very, very skeptical about Iran.

I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

It's important to reflect about what's happening inside Israel.