There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

You can't belay a man who's falling in love.