Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Rhythm is form cut into time.

It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

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.