Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.