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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man… it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

‘Evil men have no songs.’ How is it that the Russians have songs?

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

The fact that that’s the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It’s so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don’t; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages – as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.