Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.