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

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.

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.

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.

Kisses could lie as well as words.

The secret of success is sincerity.

I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.

Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

Some relationships are stronger than others at certain times.

The world seems so clean if you only looked up.

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status.

A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.