Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.

It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.

The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.