To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.