Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.