The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.