Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however pass...
What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Art is born of humiliation.
To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.
Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which soc...
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the conseque...
Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because however successful he may be in overcoming them he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every importan...
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters How well they understood Its human position how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.