Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.