‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

Women have an important contribution to make.

Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.