"There is no debate whether we need a cultural policy or not. We do need it, but there are different ways of doing it."

“If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.”

Source : 1678 Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning,'The Prologue'.

“People will turn to you, follow you, support you only as long as they are confident that you are doing your best.”

“The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.”

“Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”

“I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.”

“It's like walking on a 1970 blaze orange shag carpet in a kitchen.”

“Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.”

“I was in analysis for many years, and one of the things analysis does is open up forbidden territories. It opens up those unconscious, instinctual urges that you then have to deal with. I'm like a Frankenstein of analysis. I'm able to go back and forth between the world I've created inside of myself and the real world, which is something I think a lot of people who write and paint and make art do.”

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