British Dramatist Quotations

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.

I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.

When towns have sent out suicide bombers to fire incessantly and indiscriminately into Jewish communities, they become legitimate targets.

Occasionally I still do a bit of stuff with people I met there seven years ago. It's like looking up an old lover IRL. But on the whole I've personally exhausted that avenue of research, so it no longer draws me. I did write a novel as a kind of document of that era.

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

I create most of my own images. I steal about 2%. I use Photoshop but didn't learn it very deep. I am ultra lazy about learning software.

I was working as an art and tech researcher in '84. At that time there had been a small government program of assistance for artists for at least three or four years. I was working with Super 8 film then. And video in '85 and public radio in the early '80s.

My Roman girlfriend translates bits from Italian into English. It is sublime.

Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.

We have had government funding for new media since the early '80s.

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

A lot of the images in my work are a kind of visual diary of places I've been, what I've seen, heard, smelt.

The few remaining truths are graffiti, suicide notes, shopping lists.

I need to borrow a camera to take some pix of my studio, which is basically the kitchen table.

I like to travel. I will be in Banff next year. I would like to make a series of DVDs at Banff. I won't talk about where they will end up... just not in the media art world.

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

I am ashamed to be Australian in these times.

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.