"What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist."

-- Eric Fischl

“I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.”
“I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.”

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“I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.”
“I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.”
“Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.”
“Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder â€” just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.”

Source : "The Abolition Of Torture". newrepublic.com. December 19, 2005.
“We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago [Israel] and if they do not listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them.”
“If weâ€™re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. Itâ€™s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.”

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