... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

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.

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

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

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.