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.

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.

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.

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

Divinity exists in every soul.

People who believed in God today will doubt him tomorrow and those who doubted him today will believe in him tomorrow because believing in someone else doesn't work. Believe in yourself.

Liberty is a great celestial goddess. strong, benevolent and austere. Hello august August.

I have never, since the dawn of mankind, been adorable.

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.

I'm a very emotional person.