A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.