It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

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.

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.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.