The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

All isms end in fascism.

Love is blind but not deaf.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.

I didn't do anything spectacular when I won the Open in 2001. I hit the ball good, not great. I putted good, not great, but I think I missed maybe two putts inside eight feet all week.

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

I want painting to be difficult to do.

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?