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.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

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

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 product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.