Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying aspects of empire.

I was born a Brahmin, but I'm not a Brahmin

I don't know everything; is the first statement of wanting to know

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

I love performing in any medium, and more the opportunities you have to vary things, the more you learn.

I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does.

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.