"The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people."

“My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”

“Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.”

“I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's relationship to the history of art and the practice of art at arm's length, the ability to sort of clinically and coldly remove oneself from the picture and to see it simply as a set of rules, habits, systems, moving parts.”

“When I watch a singer perform, or an athlete, I can't help but be driven to be the best I can be at my craft.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

“Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.”

Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.693, Simon and Schuster

“a perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is, like basted inside seams and letters answered by return, a sure sign of someone who hasn't enough to do.”

“A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.”

“What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!”