You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.