Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?