A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.