The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

Simplicity is always a virtue.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.