Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith

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

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.