People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with Gods work.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Nothing wholly admirable ever happens in this country except the migration of birds.