The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to include such a dream among its fundamental legal documents. I defend it because it has been so successful for two centuries in preserving our freedom and increasing our vitality, knowing that all arguments in support of it are certain to sound absurd.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.