Words, words. They're all we have to go on.
Well, we'll know better next time.
What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
THOMASINA: ....the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue. Oh, Septimus! -- can you bear it? All the lost plays of the Athenians! Two hundre...
That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the inter...
I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.
There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it. Oh well, we'll know better next time.
The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.
Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope.
Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts...
I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratific...
Kissing girls is not like science, nor is it like sport. It is the third thing when you thought there were only two.
Gallons of ink and miles of typewriter ribbon expended on the misery of the unrequited lover; not a word about the utter tedium of the unrequiting.
Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.
It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from th...
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.