"a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste."

"Whistling to keep myself from being afraid."

"If people like being deceived — and this can hardly be doubted — there can rarely have been a time during which they can have had more of the wish than now. The literary, scientific and religious worl…"

"I have been disinvited at several conferences because, though my abstract was judged interesting enough, someone up there was briefed about my views and associations, and intervened to my detriment."

"As geological time goes, it is but a moment since the human race began and only the twinkling of an eye since the arts of civilization were first invented. In spite of some alarmists, it is hardly lik…"