Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.