"Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture."

“I thought about what I wanted to do besides playing violin and singing backup in a band. Don't get me wrong, playing and singing in That Dog was really fun, but I wanted to work on other musical projects and sing more. So I started a vocal project, i.e. Imaginaryland.”

“As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.”

“As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.”

“Whatever you believe and mentally create, you can have.”

“A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”

“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

Source : "Times Tough for Energy Overhaul" by Neil King Jr. and Stephen Power, www.wsj.com. December 12, 2008.

“Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties.”

“We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.”

Source : "The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991". Book by Eric J. Hobsbawm, 1994.