“The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity.”

“Whether or not you get what you're looknig for depends entirely on one things and one thing only. It depends on your willingness to do something different.”

“Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.”

“Both pieces are similar in one way:what one could believe, one doubts. Nicoise because one depends upon the moral sense of the filmmaker, The Navidson Record because one depends upon the moral sense of the world.”

“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”

“Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependance upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped-for protectors finally flee, and once more we are left alone - either to grow up or to disintegrate.”