Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.

The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it