Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.

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

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.