You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.