It is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.
We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.
I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.
The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.