The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

A worthy failure is more valuable than a mediocre success.

People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.

To love life is to love God.

Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.

A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.