Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.