Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

I suspect the fault...is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.

Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.