The rich are always enamored of the ancient.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.

Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.

But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Cows are the Devil's handmaidens.

I am an early riser, and always wake up between 5 and 6am.

Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links before respecting the chain!

A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray.

Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.