"I don't want pictures, I want to find things out."

“A trapped soul waits for redemption. It waits. And waits. For her to take her last breath.”

“You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.”

“You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.”

Source : "An Interview with Israel Shahak", Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. IV, No. 3, p. 3, 1975.

“The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.”

“I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.”

“I’d like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.”

“Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It's the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little homes, but the kitchen is where we always end up sitting. It's where the stories happen, the family happens.”

Source : "'Extra Virgin’s' Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos on how they stay sweet". Interview with Holley Simmons, www.washingtonpost.com. March 28, 2014.

“The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.”