The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.