I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'