Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

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.

I MUST BE A TIME TRAVELLER BECAUSEI AM ALWAYS AHEAD OF MY TIME

One second she’s all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.

Art invites us to become explorers and excavators of our vast internal landscapes, discovering new terrain and digging deep into the past to unearth forgotten experiences and emotion.

Being fearless is not in the absence of fear

We give thanks to Lord God Almighty.

We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.