Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

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

Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best game of homo ludens: science is in the strictest and best sense a glorious entertainment.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.