Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.

These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in check by a lively skepticism about everything.... It keeps you constantly alert to every possibility.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is music. It is because I believe that I am poor.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.