“The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion ...” — Simon Schama Quote

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Passover takes place in the home rather than the synagogue and centers around an epic meal - the seder - so you remember Passover as storytelling, you remember it in food, and you remember it in the family.

Silence, this will surprise you not, isn't really a Jewish concept.

St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn't.

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

Leaving the E.U. with no deal means Britain would default to World Trade Organisation rules with our biggest trading partner.

I've had my eyes opened to so many things. But still, all I really want to do is my truck job. It's like an ingrained, default setting.

We've never been anti-permanence. We just belief deletion should be the default.

I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.