Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.