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All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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There is no doubt in my mind that, from the third-person point of view, monarchy is the most reasonable form of government. By embodying the state in a fragile human person, it captures the arbitrariness and the givenness of political allegiance, and so transforms allegiance into affection.
~ Roger Scruton
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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