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.

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

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

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

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

In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.