Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Remember that I too am mortal.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.