Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.