Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.

What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she hadn't cared to ask them in, and had told them to go on to Mers.Why didn't you let them in? asked Germain angrily. People must be very suspicious in this part of the world, if they won't open the front door to a neighbor.Well, naturally! replied the maid. In a house as rich as this, you have to keep a close watch on things. While the master's away I'm responsible for everything, and I can't just open the door to anyone at all.That's a mean way to live, said Germain; I'd rather be poor than live in fear like that. Good-bye to you, miss, and good-bye to this horrible country of yours!

I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.

I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

Decency is like gold, the same in all countries.