The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist