You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers