When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.

A well balanced, inclusive approach, is essential for the proper government of any country.

The tender pressure of his lips soothed her, like a warm drink in the dead of the winter, when every part of her felt so cold.

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.

You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.

If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.