My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I have seen the future, and it works.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.