Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

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

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.

It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with ideas who are constantly trying to share them with the public. Real art is illumination. It gives a man an idea he never had before or lights up ideas that were formless or only lurking in the shadows of his mind. It adds stature to life.