I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.