There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

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.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.