Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools, hospitals, and domestic hearths are in reality little fascist states where freedom of speech is more rigorously excluded than vermin?

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

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.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.