Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.

One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.