Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Only the half-mad are wholly alive.