Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.