Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.

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

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