Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little.

The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.

I'd like to be a giant enabler.

You know, people are basically shitty. It's when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious.

I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.

I'd rather be home alone, painting.

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.