“ The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original] Chuck Palahniuk
“ But-when you really think about it-that emotional support only applies to the experience of living in public. We don't have ways to quantify ideas like amazing or successful or lovable without the fee… Chuck Klosterman
“ The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains. Of course actors regard audiences as enemies… Iris Murdoch
“ And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the Actors, w… Peter Ackroyd
“ I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law. Glenn Gould
“ The true aspiration of art should be to reduce the need for it. It is not that we should one day lose our devotion to the things that art addresses: beauty, depth of meaning, good relationships, the a… Alain de Botton
