Life is always at some turning point.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness.

Wasting time over wasted time is just more wasted time...

I don’t mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

Lord Help the Mister that comes between Me and My Sister.

Film is something that came later into my life.

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.