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.

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

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.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

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.

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