Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

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 A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

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.