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.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

No two persons ever read the same book.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.