The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.