There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.