It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.

Everyone knows who the money fight is, and everyone is begging for it. But at the end of the day, Conor's going to fight who he wants to fight.

Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn't something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.