"In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic."

“A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.”

Source : "Ten Questions for Bright Star’s Jane Campion: 'I’ve Never Made a Crap Film'". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 10, 2009.

“Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.”

“It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.”

Source : Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.219, Pickle Partners Publishing

“What puts my mind at rest is knowing I'm a person of integrity. I really do stand for what I say I stand for. I'm real!”

“... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.”

“I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.”

Source : "Lena Horne obituary" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2010.

“I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.”

“To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said.”