Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of passionate intensity.

Next to war, art is the greatest way to immortalize a reputation.

Didn’t expect to see you here, ” Jordan said.My eyes cut to Rachel, and I smiled sweetly. “Obviously. Hey, Rachel. Good to see you aga

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

I grew up in a family of people who were obsessed with fashion.

Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

Most Americans honestly believe America is the most powerful nation on earth, but actualy the most powerful nation is imagi-nation.