The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.