Behrman, S.N. Portrait of Max 1960

18: an audience with Goethe was like a visit to the dentist [Thackeray]

39: Mahler at Niagara: "Endlich, fortissimo!"

119: "With blunting of precision in language, don't you know, comes muddiness in political policy, in morality, in conduct"

128: a pamphlet translated into 37 languages and 78 foreign dialects

146: Yeats engendered a mood in a vacuum

149: Freudians were persuaded that vocabulary was an adequate substitute for understanding

185: Those who like this sort of thing will this the sort of thing like

196: Herbert had a watch and he often consulted it. But he never seemed to draw any conclusions from it.