It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.