Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

All men of action are dreamers.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.

You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

The display is the computer.

No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us to get at meaning we can't get to through the front door.

To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.