The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

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.

Stay prayerful.

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.

I have made enough faces.

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.