"I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'"

“If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.”

“I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.”

“I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.”

“I told the good Father that if he and I were going in the future to some wonderful Elysian Field and the animals were not going to go anywhere, that was all the more reason to give them a little better shake in the one life they did have.”

Source : "Cleveland Amory Dies at 81; Writer and Animal Advocate" by Enid Nemy, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 1998.

“When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.”

Source : Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.135, Penguin

“I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.”

“I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”

“Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.”