"Nestroy's words ought to apply to an artist and an idea: "I have made a prisoner, and he won't let go of me!"

"The essential of painting is that something, that 'ethereal glue', that intermediary product which the artist secretes with all his creative being and which he has to place, to encrust, to impregnate …"

"Spare me the articles about how nice Shawcross is because that was a horrendous tackle. People say we don’t fancy the physical side of it, but this is the result. If you see a player getting injured l…"

"Economics emphasizes competition, expansion, and domination; ecology emphasizes cooperation, conservation, and partnership."

"Take the case of a famous problem which plays a great part in the history of Greek geometry, the doubling of the cube, or its equivalent, the finding of two mean proportionals in continued proportion …"