You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.

The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I tell you what I want you to do but because I articulate and justify what you want to do.

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women's dresses, writes burlesque for factory theatres, does a hundred other useful tasks. Art is as usueful as bread.

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.