Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

I don't trust him. We're friends.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.