In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

No two persons ever read the same book.

I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.