No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.