You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes. " Do they ever make more sense? "No.
I am quite prepared to die here [in NY]. It doesn't matter at all. I don't know better places, or perhaps if I do I am not prepared to make a move.
Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe. . . that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world?. . . in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the body, but the soul.
I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.
If you think that there are actually covers that we haven't done on 'Glee' that I could then put on an album. . . We've done everything! Pretty soon we're just going to have to start doing opera and stuff on the show.
The death penalty makes us all murderers.