No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.