History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

That was New York

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

You're probably gonna find this hard to believe, but I was sort of weird when I was a kid." Salvatore "Sally" Sweet

We will never enjoy life unless we make a quality decision to do so.

You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.