If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.
All great art. . . creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.
The prices are ridiculous. . . I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.
Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.
Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.
Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.
Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.
I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.