"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."

“It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.”

“Salvation is a free gift.”

“Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.”

“The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.”

Source : "'Masada Songbook': Zorn Redefines Jewish Music". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. November 13, 2005.

“Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.”

“There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.”

Source : David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.212, A&C Black

“Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.”

Source : Barbara Catoir, Antoni Tàpies (1991). “Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work”

“People always talk about the content, in terms of the politics of it or whatever social issues are in it, and it's like, "Yeah, but I'm also a good comic." You could at least talk about the form of it, and I feel like that's always the thing that's missed.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com