There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

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.

Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing life.

When I Am Within, I Am Never Without.

Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.

A hand in mine.. hot. Breath on my neck... sweet. The feel of lips on my own... forbidden.

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

I do tend to like movies that challenge me, professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two or five actors, and it's all about the acting and not the camera.

I want to be like Rocky Balboa. Give me a title shot right away! I'll prove myself.

I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain.

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

America and Canada are the best friends. We've always been the best friends.