A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

A. Balasubramaniam
A. Balasubramaniam

I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.

A. Balasubramaniam
A. Balasubramaniam

I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

A. Balasubramaniam
A. Balasubramaniam

I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your work so much, why deal with where to show, how to show, what to do? If the artist finds the right gallery which respects their work and gives them that freedom to do whatever they want to do, the artist can focus on his work.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.