Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.

They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

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