No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

performance is an act of faith.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?