Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

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

Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

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

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.