"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."

“Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants,”

“If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.”

“I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.”

“Ah, there should be a young man, ein schone Junge carrying Blumen, a bouquet of roses. There should be cold Rhine wine and Strausswaltzes, and on the long way home kisses in the shadow of an archway, like a Cinderella.”

“Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.250, A&C Black

“Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.”

“I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.”

Source : Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”