Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

In real life there is no such thing as the average man.