The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.