There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. - George Steiner

There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.