What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

I love the majesty of human suffering.