I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or opiates. In Iran, until recently, they sold opium in shops legally, and they had 3,000,000 addicts in a population of 15,000,000. I don't believe that all those people were escaping from "complexes" or anything of the sort. They were simply exposed to it.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.

As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.

By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.