If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.

The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.

Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?