A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'