Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.

Edward Gardner

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

Martin Scorsese

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

Dave Brubeck

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

George Eliot

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

St. Jerome

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Benjamin Disraeli

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Tacitus

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

Benicio Del Toro

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Jane Austen

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Terry Pratchett

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Lewis Thomas