Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.