“One can not go back and change anything one has done in the past.”

A sober acknowledgement of the permanence of past actions · Senate testimony, 1953

• Memory
• Time

“To give a full interpretation of any piece of literary work one has to consider not only when and how it was written, but what brought it into being.”

Arguing that literature must be understood through the circumstances that produced it · Senate testimony, 1953

• Art
• Truth

“A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.”

Arguing that representation becomes art through interpretation · Essay on photography, collected essays

• Art
• Beauty