"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time."

“I cry a lot.' 'Yeah? Well I'm gonna change that.”

“The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.”

“I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.”

“So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology. But when it comes to the Middle East, and especially the Arab world, simply depicting people as human beings is the most political thing you can do. And that's why I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect.”

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“I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.”

“The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.”

Source : "Unkempt Thoughts" as translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

“No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.”

“The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.”

Source : Douglas Huebler, Dittmar Memorial Gallery (1980). “Douglas Huebler, 10 +: exhibition , April 2-May 2, 1980, Northwestern University, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Evanston Illinois”