Golda Meir

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.