The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Grief, my friend, forces us to search our souls and find answers to issues that constrain us from becoming better human beings.

What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.

We must pray for a change.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it.

If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Maybe this society, if anything, has become more patriarchal, and that has to be combated.

I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.