Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.

The American dream is under attack because our government has been hijacked by the Liberals in Washington DC.

Why choose to fail when success is an option?

There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

I can't count the number of people I've talked to over the course of my career who have said to me that the thing that they most regret is the one time they did something just for the money.