Artists Never Make Wars. They

In Our Long And Obsessive Passion For Youth, We Have - More Than Any Other Modern Society - Avoided Direct Approach To Age And To Dying By Denying Them In Word, In Fact, And - Above All - In Worth.

Surely The Hold Of Great Music On The Listener Is Precisely This: That The Listener Is Made Whole; And At The Same Time Part Of An Image Of Infinite Grace And Grandeur Which Is Creation.

The Great Omission In American Life Is Solitude; Not Loneliness, For This Is An Alienation That Thrives Most In The Midst Of Crowds, But That Zone Of Time And Space, Free From The Outside Pressures, Which Is The Incubator Of The Spirit.

Nobody Objects To A Woman Being A Good Writer Or Sculptor Or Geneticist If At The Same Time She Manages To Be A Good Wife, A Good Mother, Good-looking, Good-tempered, Well-dressed, Well-groomed, And Unaggressive.

Human Progress Had So Often Been Checked By Those Who Were Afraid Of Losing What They Had.