Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

O summer and soft wind. Relieves the heart and makes living cheaper.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

I don't think rock music has any positive function.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?

My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.