People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor.

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

Kings can only use their best tools.

The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.

It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to attack.

A light rain touches my cheek like an angel's butterfly kisses.

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

Brother, when beauty falls into your hand, you hold on to it while you can. You could be dead tomorrow.Well, that’s... inspiring.

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

All I need in a relationship is somebody to watch TV with me.

The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.

Well my favorite is really really sharp, extra sharp, aged cheddar cheese.

T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.