"Fresh water is like a fossil fuel; we should not waste it."

“There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.”

Source : "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

“House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.”

“Don't let other people tell you what you want.”

“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.”

“This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money? Do libraries make money? Does the zoo make money? D o the sewers make money? It's a community service.”

“I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".”

“Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.”

“The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.”