"There's less wear and tear. It allows the heart to pump with greater efficiency so there's less strain. When we really can feel a positive feeling, that's when the heart's communication becomes the best."

“I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.”

Source : "The "New Woman" Revised : Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street". Book by by Ellen Wiley Todd, Ch. 7, p. 273, 1992.

“In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.”

“There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing, (but) it's something you do much later.”

“Those players really believe in him.”

“Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.”

“The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.”

“The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We get stuck on our paths because we are unable to reimagine our lives differently from what they are right now. We hold on desperately to the status quo, afraid that if we let go, we will be swept away by the torrential undercurrents of our emptiness.”

Source : FaceBook post by Marc Gafni from Aug 26, 2015

“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”