Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.

To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, " said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....

...I don't want to mar the moment with questions. By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything.

You don't have to say everything to say something.

I didn't start a war. Nobody died.

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

Listen, you may not like the fact that I'm talking about Donald Trump, but the facts are that he is now, this is a race. This is a - it's no longer Hillary's [Clinton]. This is now a horse race.

Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest.

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.

I didn't get married. I do have a boyfriend. We live together.

Give the devil his due.

Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.