"I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me."

“Old friends are best.”

Source : 'Table Talk' (1689) 'Friends'

“The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else...”

“My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once.”

Source : "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.

“Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.”

Source : Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

“This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.”

“To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.”

Source : "The Stax Report: Script Review Of Rollerball". www.ign.com. July 14, 2000.

“Israel is a colonialist-imp erialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state such as Israel. Israel is the result of an invasion, of aggression.”