I am an optimist unrepentant and militant. After all in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
