The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

From the people who brought you "zero tolerance, " I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?

You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.

Look at your world and your life, and look at what is personal to you. If you're living in an apartment, you need to stick with a narrative that's personal to you.

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power.