Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.