Books are like …

… lobster shells, we surround ourselves with ‘em, then we grow out of ‘em and leave ‘em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. Dorothy L. Sayers

Witty Winston

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
SIR W. CHURCHILL

Better than 3D

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust? S. D.
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A supreme pleasure

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dalí.

It couldn't be helped

If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn’t be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt… retire?
MARIA CALLAS
Photo: Robert Lebeck

Alles ist eins

Vor der Ikone des Heiligen Georg stellt der gläubige Inder drei Kerzen auf: Eine für den Heiligen, eine für den Drachen, eine für das Pferd.
Jean-Claude Carriere über den weitsichtigen Hiduismus

The Answer

Marge, there’s an empty spot I’ve always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer.
HOMER SIMPSON

Question of style

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

PABLO PICASSO

Warum die Tiere Hörner haben

Damals lernte ich verstehen, warum die Tiere Hörner haben. Sie enthielten alles Unver- ständliche, das in ihrem Leben nicht unter- zubringen war, die wilde und zudringliche Laune, den geistlosen und blinden Starrsinn.
Bruno Schulz, Geniale Epoche

Georgia O’Keefe, fotografiert von Yosef Karsh