I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like the very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva.