Moralists have no place in an art gallery.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

People never think about words, they only feel them.

Sadness is so ungrateful.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

Vision sometimes comes in a memory.

When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.

You are who you are by virtue of the company you keep.