I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.