The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

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