Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.