"The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance."

“Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.”

“We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.”

“Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.”

Source : Charlie W Shedd (1976). “Grandparents: Then God Created Grandparents and It Was Very Good”, Doubleday

“The Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them.”

“The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.”

Source : "Is Conflict Good For Progress?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”

“I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel - very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.”

“Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.”

Source : "The Origins of 'World's End' & A Look at 'Ant-Man'". Interview with David Weiner, www.etonline.com. November 19, 2013.