Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!
There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.
Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin. It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.
It must be the body. It's chiseled out of marshmallows.