Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.

those who despair of life are not long for it.

We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.

I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.