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.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

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

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

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

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.