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

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

Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

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

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.