The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

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.

Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

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