The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.
When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. . . . They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.
If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.
He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.