"Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe."

“The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.”

“A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.”

Source : Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”

“I’ll be emotionally disturbed for as long as it takes”

Source : Harryette Mullen (2002). “Sleeping with the Dictionary”, p.28, Univ of California Press

“I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point, it was not enough.”

Source : "Thierry Mugler, Still Creating a Stir". Interview with Eric Wilson, www.nytimes.com. April 30, 2010.

“All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.”

“Truth is error burned up.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1968). “Love's Body”

“I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“[Operation] Rockingham was spinning reports and emphasizing reports that showed non-compliance (by Iraq with UN inspections) and quashing those which showed compliance. It was cherry-picking intelligence.”

Source : Sunday Herald, June 8, 2003.