A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

It does not matter where you are standing right now, what matters is where you are headed to.

You are not going to be the girl I’m going to marry are you? You are going to be the girl that got away.

We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing.

Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.

To fly or not to fly, that's the question.

If I dated as many people as they said I have, then I would be dead, because it's just not possible.

My horses make very silly faces when I'm preparing their meals.

Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

My dreams are my work. I design out of the things that I love.