I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

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...[O]ne of the first things a Magnolia League debutante learns: Keep your thoughts and opinions to yourself.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Don’t be friends with jerks.