Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop

Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.