At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
I do not live in the world of sobriety.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
We see things as we are, not as they are.
Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.
Human improvement is from within outward.
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
You save an old man and you save a unit but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
A baby sitter is someone who watches your TV set While your kids cry themselves to sleep.