If It Were Possible To Talk To

The Greatest Artists Have Never Been Men Of Taste. By Never Sophisticating Their Instincts They Have Never Lost The Awareness Of The Great Simplicities, Which They Relish Both From Appetite And From The Challenge These Offer To Skill In Competition With Popular Art.

Baseball Is A Kind Of Collective Chess With Arms And Legs In Full Play Under Sunlight.

Universities Incline Wits To Sophistry And Affectation.

Old Age Is Like Learning A New Profession. And Not One Of Your Own Choosing.

History, Like A Vast River, Propels Logs, Vegetation, Rafts, And Debris; It Is Full Of Live And Dead Things, Some Destined For Resurrection; It Mingles Many Waters And Holds In Solution Invisible Substances Stolen From Distant Soils.