We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.