"The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion."
"I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings."
"Some would think the leader of a people should be a model of what to strive for. But maybe God knew trying to be perfect is just not healthy."
"We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller."
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
