Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.

You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.