Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.