I have learned that love is often strongest where it is most threatened. Where it is most terrorised is where it most profusely grows.Lillian WhiteI Would Send You Poppies

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

My point is, if we respect the winner and approach that person, have access to that person and that person will look at what we are presenting, that is not too bad.

I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I think one day they will be considered equal. They aren't yet. They will be.

Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Saviour; in suffering love becomes crystallised; the greater the suffering, the purer the love.

At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.