Two qualities are indispensable: first an intellect that even in the darkest hour retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

In the end the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning rather than protesting that like some poor relation they don't cost much to be housed.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

For art to exist for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing intelligent crazy creative strange and indispensable magazine.