"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
"I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study him."
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Source: Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, (p. 98), 1920.
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