Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.

I am the place in which something has occurred.

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. . . .

All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.