"I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view."

“It used to be that wealthy people were the leisure class, and having time off was a status symbol. That's switched now: being busy and overworked is the reality for many white-collar workers, and there's a kind of perverse currency to that, competitive busy-ness. At the other end of the income scale, there's a swath of lower-wage workers who are underemployed or unemployed, with too much unwanted leisure, and zero status for that. For shift workers, devices mean they're accessible in ways they weren't before, susceptible to that call from the boss to log more hours.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

“Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.”

Source : "Electing the Conservatives is a risk we must not take" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2009.

“Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.”

“Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life”

Source : Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin

“The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if they don't, there's nothing you can do anyway, so don't let it concern you that much. An awful lot of good movies have done badly and an awful lot of bad movies have done very well. There are no real rhymes or reasons for it. Sometimes the stars don't always align right. But if you've done the best you can, you feel pretty good about it.”

“Welfare mothers make better lovers.”

“The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.”

“The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.”