Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.