"If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong. -Matrim Cauthon"

“If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.”

“Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree.”

Source : "Why woodlands are wonderful" by Colin Tudge, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2010.

“Television has tremendous power over our lives.”

“However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.”

“A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.”

“All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.”

“Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.”