A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

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

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.