Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.