A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

Amy Waldman

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

David Hare

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Patti Johnson

Unpredictability is in general a fine protective feature, which should never be squandered but always spent wisely. There is much to be gained from communication if it is craftily doled out - enough truth to keep one's credibility high but enough falsehood to keep one's options open.

Daniel Dennett

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

Mark Twain

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann

I wanted to find a nice quiet spot, go to sleep, and dream about kittens.

John Corwin

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

Albert Camus

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Francis Picabia

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

George Sand

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau