“Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversio...” — John Berger Quote

“Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.”

“Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.”

“For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.”

“When you reflect on your life, you realize how arguments, pride, and the worry of proving yourself never changed or fixed anything.”

“If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.”

“Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.”