"It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you."

“It is concluded that artificial fluoridation appears to cause or induce about 20-30 excess cancer deaths for every 100,000 persons exposed per year after about 15-20 years.”

“Berlin stimulates like arsenic.”

Source : Der Querschnitt. Quoted in Gordon, Mel (2000). "Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin", front fold, 1929.

“When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.”

Source : "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

“A party: one arrives long after it's started, and one's going to leave long before it's over.”

“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.”

Source : Yukio Mishima (1969). “Thirst for love”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

“[T]here's a good reason to stay pessimistic about deficits as far as the eye can see. It's called the 'news' media. Legislators who want to get re-elected will clearly want to avoid any spending decision that will create bad national publicity, and our news media, the manufacturers of bad national publicity, will send crying victims down the assembly line at the slightest thought of a social spending cut or freeze. Exhibit A is Sen. Jim Bunning.”

“My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'”

“In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.”