Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

Life is a field of cosmic consciousness, expressing itself in million ways in space-time through quantum entanglement

I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.

The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.

If the president finds time to help the mentally retarded, what are you doing that's so important? [Written underneath:] Working to get them out of Washington.

I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.