profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

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

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.