What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

New York is the great stone desert.