Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.

Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.

The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!

Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

Every cell in your body is seeking fulfillment through joy, beauty, love and appreciation.

You can go through the process. You can also change. You can do both. Uh, you can do one, the other, or both. And I think it depends on the individual.

But 40 told me to do me and don't listen to anybody that knew me. Cause to have known me would mean that there's a new me and if you think I've changed, then the slightest could have fooled me.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.