I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.