"We can forgive a man for making..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.”

“sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it”

“The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.”

“Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.”

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”

“Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that”

“We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.”

“It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.”

“We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.”