Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

To study history is to study literature.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

The drama is the book of the people.

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny.

To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now

The covetous are always in want.

They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.