"There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world."

“We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.”

“If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.”

“There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.”

“Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name.”

“I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.”

“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”

“The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.”

Source : "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army". Book by Catherine Merridale, p. 174, 2007.

“The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.”

Source : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.44, Atlantic Monthly Press