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

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

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

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.

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

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

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.