The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.