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.

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

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.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

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

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.