Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
The true history of a people is written in the margins of official history.
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.