"Culture is our key survival strategy."
Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar, in From Lucy to Language (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) as quoted in review by John Noble Wilford in New York Times Book Review (December 1, 1996) p. 7.
"The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good."
Andrey Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986) 43.
"When you think about it, life is just a glorified perp walk."
Unidentified individual, under the influence of unidentified substance.
"If you can't redeem, exploit."
Arthur Bicknell, author of the consummate Broadway flop "Moose Murders," quoted in The New York Times (21 April 2008) p. E5 col. 2.
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