If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.

I can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked.

I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.

It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.

It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.