Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.

If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.

It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.

Optimists think badly, but live well.

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

The first word about you is that you received this life.

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.