The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.