You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

The fear of life which is the beginning of all evil....

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.