Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'