Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.
