The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.