Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.