Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.

I is another.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Misfortune was my god.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of your experience, and that's - that's the greatest gift you can possibly give yourself.

Flying can be easy at times but with the wrong machine or the wrong person at the controls it is the most difficult thing in the world.

I would love to interview Michael McKean and his wife, who wrote the songs for 'A Mighty Wind,' which is my favorite Christopher Guest movie. I'm just a sucker for any funny guy that has a wife who is intelligent and that he collaborates with.

I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

Every once in awhile you get encouragement, or you get something that isn't competitive or guilt-inducing from your peers, and it just turns a little light on. It makes it so the work that you do isn't isolating and horrible. There are people who make your life and your work better, and that's something I'm incredibly grateful for.

The dharma is a universal medicine.

When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call and ask a question about E-ZPass, you're talking to a Xerox person.

Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment. Take this day this moment and lead it to perfection.

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

The white man is destroying the world.

There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

I don't have any desire to be better known.

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden.

When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet.

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.