You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

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

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

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

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.