When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.