When you break up your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

In the practical art of war the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.