Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

Some things were only possible in fairy tales. And not the kind of fairy tales that Baba Yagas featured in

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff." "Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.