To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Handle with care. Probably has Views. Do not attempt to kiss hand.

Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died.

The past is getting clearer and clearer

So when do I meet the champ?

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

I would rather lose money than trust

The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.

The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.

An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.