What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.