The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

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.

My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

Those whom we cannot stand are usually those whom we cannot understand.

What matters finally is how we feel about ourselves. After all, to a worm we're just food.

There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

Never underestimate the power of intention.

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.