A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.

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

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.