National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.

Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.

Accept things that will make you happy. This is the joy of sacred existence.

Explore the spirituality of your soul.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

Lately, I've become sort of a fatalist. Well, that was bound to happen.

[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.

You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side