Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.