Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?

Thomas Jefferson said, The tree of liberty must be fertilized from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Yeah and I heard that and thought, I'm out!

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep.

I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.