Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.