The Ultimate Cynicism Is To Suspend Judgment

If American Men Are Obsessed With Money, American Women Are Obsessed With Weight. The Men Talk Of Gain, The Women Talk Of Loss, And I Do Not Know Which Talk Is The More Boring.

A Musical Audience Is At Best Uninspiring, At Worst Definitely Drab. ... Respectability Hangs Like A Pall Over The Orchestra And The Boxes; A Sort Of Sterile Sobriety Ill-fitted To The Passionate Geometry Of Music.

A Seventeenth-century Painting Can Be "modern" Because The Living Eye Finds It Fresh And New. A "modern" Painting Can Be Outdated Because It Was A Product Of The Moment And Not Of Time.

All Wars Derive From Lack Of Empathy: The Incapacity Of One To Understand And Accept The Likeness Or Difference Of Another. Whether In Nations Or The Encounters Of Race And Sex, Competition Then Replaces Compassion, Subjection Excludes Mutuality.

There Is Nothing Harder To Come By Than Detachment And Solitude; And Nothing More Important.