“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”

“For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?”

“Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.”

“Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.”

“Those to whom evil is done,do evil in return”

“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.”

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,But on earth indifference is the leastWe have to dread from man or beast.”