The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.

A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.

We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.