Movies lost their appeal when people realized their real lives were more interesting.

Timeless resources exist, if you will ask the Creator.

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.

Here’s what I think. One, people should figure out that if they go around bothering bears, chances are they’re going to end up bear snacks. Second, people suck.

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings