There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?

Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place.

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

To make one, there must be two.