"We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?"

“The frame announces that between the part of reality that was cut away and this part there is a difference; and that this segment which the frame frames is an example of nature-as-representation, nature-as-sign.”

Source : Rosalind E. Krauss (1986). “The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths”, p.115, MIT Press

“I don't think anyone wants to be gay.”

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

Source : Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

“Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.”

“That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.”

Source : Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

“I hate wearing trousers and shoes. I wear jeans and sneakers most of the time.”

“Turkey's relations with its immediate neighbors are improving. They were pretty bad for a long time - with Syria they were abominable, and with Iran they were pretty bad. In both cases Turkey sees potential for trade, especially with Iran, where it gets a lot of natural gas. In good times Iran and Turkey find mutually profitable objects of exchange, but with Syria things have been very bad; Syria doesn't have much money and never will.”

“I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.”