For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.