Brooks Atkinson
Biography
Quotes
- It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
- We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
- Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
