The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Wise men still seek Him today.

But in action, one defies one's character.

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.

She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic.

You can't have genius without patience.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.

It's been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music.

I know that I want to wait for something that I really feel great about.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.