History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

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.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

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