Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.