In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination

If you want to punish a sage lock him in the same room with a fool.

Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two-state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighboring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.