"You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing."

“Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.”

“Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.”

Source : Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.32

“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”

Source : "Richard Rorty (1931 - 2007)". "The Philosopher's Zone" with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. June 16, 2007.

“We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly.”

“Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.91, New Directions Publishing

“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

“Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.”

“For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.”