There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?

Art is anything people do with distinction.

A good reputation is better than fame.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

The best live among us in disguise.

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point

What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?

If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

I'm a one-man kind of girl, and I only want a man who's a one-woman man.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

Well, first I'd want a better vibrato.

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world!