The Best Things In History Are Accomplished

Being Generous Is Inborn; Being Altruistic Is A Learned Perversity. No Resemblance --

Death Is An Old Friend; I Know Him Well. I Lived With Him, Ate With Him, Slept With Him; To Meet Him Again Does Not Frighten Me Death Is As Necessary As Birth, As Happy In Its Own Way.

You're In Bad Shape When Your Emotions Force You Into Acts Which You Know Are Foolish.

A Motion To Adjourn Is Always In Order.

Art Is The Process Of Evoking Pity And Terror, Which Is Not Abstract At All But Very Human. What The Self-styled Modern Artists Are Doing Is A Sort Of Unemotional Pseudointellectual Masturbation . . . Whereas Creative Art Is More Like Intercourse, In Which The Artist Must Seduce -- Render Emotional -- His Audience, Each Time.