“You can present the material, but you can't make me care.”
“You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.”
“Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.”
“The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?”
“Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways: the shock of the new.”
“I reckon if you care for someone and you can't have their love, you can either be a spiteful bastard about it or you can try your damnedest to make sure they're going to find some happiness in the world.”