Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

I can honestly say that if I was told at this moment that I was dying, not my first, not my second, but certainly my third thought would be that I should never see Italy again.

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

A man should be like a child with his wives, but if they need him, he should act like a man

If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!