Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.

That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.