Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

Life is always at some turning point.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.

Unlike Panic! At the Disco, I write sins AND tradgedies.

In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

There's a love that never changes, no matter what you've done.

Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady, "Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angeles, and send one to Miami." She said, "We can't do that!" I told her, "You did it last week!"

To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'

Alright, he's chucking his toys out the basket and Gary Shaw has a big mouth and shouts a lot.

Music is a reflection of who you are.

Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?