Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
