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“The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our ranks. But their expectations are in vain: bitter disillusionment awaits them. He who is not blind sees that our party, during its difficult days, is closing its ranks still more closely, that it is united and unshakable.”
Source : "The Current Digest of the Soviet Press". Issued by the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies, p. 9, 1953.
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“From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.”
Source : Interview with Kimberly Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2010. 
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“A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.”
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“When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.”
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“If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.”
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“Nobody accomplishes success by themselves.”
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“Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.”
Source : "INTERVIEW: Glen Hirshberg, Author of MOTHERLESS CHILD". Interview with Kristin Centorcelli, www.sfsignal.com. June 2, 2014.
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“He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.”
