The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world, what we believe to be possible, what memories we have, and whether our loyalties are to the past, the present or the future.

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.