“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual ar...”

“I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There sho...”

“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that p...”

“Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.”

“I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things...”

“Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.”

“Tomorrow is no man's gift.”

“A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.”

“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and hi...”

“The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.”

“Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreck...”

“Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.”