The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

The atonement of Jesus Christ is the supreme act of love, the supreme example of selfless concern for others.

You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.

I've done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon.

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.