Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.