The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.