The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crack pots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.

I do not like to be unkind.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.