I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.