Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Let all your thinks be thanks.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.