Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. - Rebecca West

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because those values are threatened, and it is not certain whether they will triumph in this world, and of course music is a missionary effort to colonise earth for imperialistic heaven.

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

It was the same when they sat in his office, a stupendous apartment designed in that modernist style which represents the last attempt of bad taste to escape the criticisms of good taste.