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

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.