“Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.”

It’s never too late for those whose time has come.

I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market.

Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Only good things come from God’s hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity.

my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).