Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
Luck always favors the comely.
He who does not like you will defame you in jest.
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters, as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
God took his chosen people and we are what's left. He looked at what's left and thought: I could kill you all, but let's see what happens. A little social experiment.
To find something beautiful is to hope that your life will be better if that is a part of it. Unfortunately, the promise of a better life that beauty makes and the hope that it will be fulfilled are not always realized: beauty, like friendship, is also double-edged.