They judge lest they be judged.

Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.