The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.

If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.

The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

War is a specific product of civilization.

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.