Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.