Music is the perfect type of art.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.