All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.

The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the...

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer,...

The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.

Also she went in for culture, which gave her a certain moral authority. It wouldn't now; but people believed, then, that culture could make you better - a better person. They believed it could uplift...

New York's perennial attraction was shopping.

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and...

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

I had also developed my own culture. Work. Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to the side.

My voice thick with frustration, I declared that if men and women could only meet each other under normal circumstances, that delusions of instant love would be more infrequent. While I do believe...