The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

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.

As soon as my lips touched hers, something happened... My chest tightened so much that it hurt, and I almost couldn’t breathe. - Mako Delmar

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

What drives me is what I'm putting out into the world, and I like to make films that people can connect to, or they can escape in.

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.