"A book or poem which has no..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

“With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.”

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

“My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.”

“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”

“I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.”

“The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.”

“I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby. But I also believe that when a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels someone disrespected him, we have a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge that there's a hole in his heart, one that government programs alone may not be able to repair.”

“A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.”