“I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.”

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: I am daily more amazed at the ignorance of grown-up men and women, called gentlemen and gentlewomen, who, with so many means at their command, are little better than Hottentots in disguise.... These people may read a newspaper, which is the best thing that they do read... But the chief reading of these silly people is stories, tales, novels, and works of some kind of fiction, and not even the best works of the kind. They are very much in the state of those who commit excess in strong drink.

As quoted in The Economist (15 October 2010), p. 107

On Jean-Luc Godard in an interview with John Simon (1971).
Context: In this profession, I always admire people who are going on, who have a sort of idea and, however crazy it is, are putting it through; they are putting people and things together, and they make something. I always admire this. But I can't see his pictures. I sit for perhaps twenty-five or thirty or fifty minutes and then I have to leave, because his pictures make me so nervous. I have the feeling the whole time that he wants to tell me things, but I don't understand what it is, and sometimes I have the feeling that he's bluffing, double-crossing me.

Expo '86
Transatlanticism (2003)

&quot;Doing What I Know&quot; (song) <br class="br">Song lyrics <br class="br">Source: Gilbert O&#x27;Sullivan, &quot;Doing What I Know&quot; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlkC9AFrSNU (song on YouTube)

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

http://hnn.us/articles/1881.html
Interview with Christopher Hitchens
Jamie
Glazov
History News Network
2003-12-22
2000s, 2003