Infants Are Interesting Only To Their Parents.

Self-restraint May Be Alien To The Human Temperament, But Humanity Without Restraint Will Dig Its Own Grave.

I Would Call An Intellectual One Whose Instrument Of Work - His Mind - Is Also His Major Source Of Pleasure; A Man Whose Entertainment Is His Intelligence.

For Every Five Well-adjusted And Smoothly Functioning Americans, There Are Two Who Never Had The Chance To Discover Themselves. It May Well Be Because They Have Never Been Alone With Themselves.

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.

Timing And Arrogance Are Decisive Factors In The Successful Use Of Talent.