But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).