I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

There is no depth to education without art.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

The future is always here in the past

Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?