Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The artist in me cries out for design.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.