"Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe."

“Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.”

“I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.”

Source : FaceBook post by Steven Millhauser from Oct 23, 2016

“The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'”

Source : "Pat Robertson attacks Hindus as 'demonic'" by Valli J. Rajan, www.sullivan-county.com. July 1995.

“I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.”

Source : Virgil Thomson (1984). “A Virgil Thomson reader”, Plume

“Why are old maps always burnt?”

“You hold your future in your own hands. Never waver in this belief.”

“Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.”