Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
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...
When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.
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.
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.
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.
If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.
We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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.
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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...
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.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him t...
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.
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...