Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the gipsies."

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.