My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.