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“There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife.”
Source : Stephen Spender's lecture at Brooklyn College, as quoted in "The New York Times", November 20, 1984.
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“There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.”
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“evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue.”
Source : Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?”
Source : 'My Life and My Films' (1974) 'Nana'
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“Believe in yourself. Believe in your own potential for greatness. Believe that you can change the world. It is something that is within each of us. Believe in the Power of One”
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“Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his iPod full of heavy metal jams and his cute kids. But he's just a fresh face on a Taliban creed - the evermore antediluvian, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay conservative core. Amiable in khakis and polo shirts, Ryan is the perfect modern leader to rally medieval Republicans who believe that Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs.”
Source : "Just think No" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. August 21, 2012. 
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“This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.”
Source : "Selected Essays by Ahad Ha'am". Book by Ahad Ha'am, 2005.
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“I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling.”
