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.

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.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

I drink to make other people interesting.

Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience.

She told me that she loved me. She told me that everything would be okay. She told me to let go

The key to success is having no qualms about failure.

We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

I'm still a news junkie. I mean, I always was, I am now.

Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.

I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.

I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces I sing my heart out to the infinite sea I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains I sing my song to the free.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.