"For five hundred years after Walther's death – until Goethe – no German lyric poet was his equal."

"Hypocrisy is a universal phenomenon. It ends with death, but not before."

"We went from losses to goods seized by creditors, while continuing to organize surrealist or abstract exhibitions…"

"I know you'll say, "All right: if Medina said to kill everyone in Atlanta, would you?" And someday an Army officer may, the way this country is going now. I say this: if this were a hundred years ago,…"

"In the early twentieth century the problem of production had been solved; after that it was the problem of consumption that plagued society. In the 1950s and '60s, consumer commodities and farm produc…"