‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

The brain is wider than the sky.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

History is more or less bunk.

I’m all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it’s called ‚Kiss Land,‘ it’s probably going to be the most terrifying thing you’ve ever seen in your life.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.