The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. – Susan Sontag
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, “Smile, Grandma!” — I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother’s lap. – Liv Ullmann
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. – Mikhail Bakunin
Since I was a kid, Ive had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties – but Id never really touched on dark Americana. – Robert Plant
