Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

Do your thing, without harming anything.

Viral videos aren't just about being funny. They're about identity creation.

Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

Books are my weakness.

It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.

Human beings are weak.

Can you afford to ignore China? It's like saying you can afford to ignore the internet. I don't think so.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.