There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.