I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

After the event, even a fool is wise.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

Do what is right. Not what you like.

Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

I think my parents were high when they named me.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.