The artist must see the war with a unique vision. If he doesn't, then he hasn't added anything to our lives. We can pick up Time magazine and get that account of what happened, but what truly happened we must get from the artist. To me that war was a nightmare and it is best expressed in a surreal way. And that is why it is written in that style and in that attitude. War is a form of madness.

The city is recruited from the country.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

Mike Judge

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cars in order to win the game.

Voltaire

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

Henry Ward Beecher

In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch

Bertrand Russell

Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.

William Shakespeare

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Jean Rostand

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Thomas Jefferson

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Nina Bawden

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

Fareed Zakaria

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Jay Leno