I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.