Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.

The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.