... 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.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

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.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

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

the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.