If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.