"A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy."

"Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature."

"Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth."

"In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education."

"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."

"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."

"Poetry: the best words in the best order."

"The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it."