“ The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. ”
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
~ H. L. Mencken
Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.
