"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."

"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."

"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with."

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor."

"Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country."

"The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever."