"It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art."

"Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding."

"Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again my memory echoes…my people die for lack of knowledge."

"Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously 'born' in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality."

"At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work."