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Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
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Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.
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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
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The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
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A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.
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They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.
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I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.
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God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight.
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The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to supplement the income you get from writing novels. For a lot of writers, that involves teaching. In my case, so far, I've been able to get by working in Hollywood with this TV stuff I've been doing. And it's very important, because my wife is a writer, too, and we don't have health insurance through any employer.
