Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.