Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.