And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

One night I was layin' down, I heard Papa talkin' to Mama, I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out.

I am blessed.I am beautiful.I am great.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

I'm constantly being visually stimulated.

My soul has learned what it came to learn, and all the other things are just things. We can't have everything we want. Sometimes, we simply have to believe.

The paperless society is about as plausible as the paperless bathroom.

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.