Man was created to complete the horse.

A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.