“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.”
“Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.”
“Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.”
“I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.”
“I studied him silently. He looked like he always did—a living, breathing statue. Perfection without any humanity, and yet he was here.”
“The last woman I was in was the Statue of Liberty.”