If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people we see on the screen may be scarcely more explained than reality itself. Professionals, except fo the greatest, usually play not just the necessary role, but an explanation of the role.

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.