Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

Not all questions can be answered.