The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.
We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.