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

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

I hope we don't lose in America this demand that those of us who want this office must be prepared not to handle the 10-second gimmick that deals, say, with little things like war and peace

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

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music, because, in its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression and to it therefore, to the condition of its perf