Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile - Kamada Nakasato, 102-y/o-female fr. Okinawa

My life is like an O Henry story....the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I thought it was very humanitarian of Sean Penn and Madonna to marry each other. That way, they make only two people miserable instead of four.

I've sort of gotten into the habit of looking for the vulnerable guy, the guy who makes mistakes, the guy who can't figure things out all the time but keeps at it.

You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.