"It's the referee's job. It's not for me to have to say I should ease up."

“Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

“Art is an elastic sort of love.”

“Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.”

Source : Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.

“Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.”

Source : "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.

“I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.”

“We are not by nature cruel.”

“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.”

“The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees. I don't know if you remember the Bee Gees. My mom took me. I was little. But my mom was a big disco fan, and - my mom took me to the Bee Gees. Looking back now, it's pretty embarrassing if your first concert was with your mom.”