At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.