Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'