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

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

a culture is no better than its woods

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.