Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.