A World In Everlasting Conflict Between The

Religion Is Organized To Satisfy And Guide The Soul -- Politics Does The Same Thing For The Body.

The Concept, The Label, Is Perpetually Hiding From Us All The Nature Of The Real.

God Is A Character, A Real And Consistent Being, Or He Is Nothing. If God Did A Miracle He Would Deny His Own Nature And The Universe Would Simply Blow Up, Vanish, Become Nothing.

A Friend Of Mine Tells Me That A Beethoven Symphony Can Solve For Him A Problem Of Conduct. I've No Doubt That It Does So Simply By Giving Him A Sense Of The Tragedy And The Greatness Of Human Destiny, Which Makes His Personal Anxieties Seem Small, Which Throws Them Into A New Proportion.

What I Say To An Artist Is, 'when You Can't Paint - Paint.