The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?