"Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions."

“Only the insane equate pain with success.”

“After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.”

Source : "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

“One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.”

“Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?”

Source : Twitter post from May 6, 2012

“There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.”

“Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining.”

“Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.”

“The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.”