The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

The future stands in need of you in order to be born.

No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major degree by improvement in environment.