Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

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

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

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.