All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

I'm really interested in starting to write my own songs. I never really did, but hopefully I will because I'm so interested in writing my own songs.

I am at peace with God and all mankind.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

Tinks titties Rache Jenks

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.