No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.