Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

No two persons ever read the same book.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

Problems don't exist because people are religious people are religious because problems exist.

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

Love is the line that draws the shape of God. --Bleeding Hearts (Demimonde #1)

To experience spiritual victory, you must depend on God's resources.

You must be a starter and a finisher, the slogan “press on” has solved a lot of problem.

I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning.

I don't mind being at their side, with respect to the Ukraine. But why should we always be out front? How many times can we be out in front on these issues?

Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with, are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.