We are called with a special calling, and we have a special mission to perform.

I, Charles W. Penrose, wrote the Manifesto with the assistance of Frank J. Cannon and John White... Wilford Woodruff signed it to beat the devil at his own game.

The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies.

It was everything I hoped it would be. I want you to know I would have waited another sixteen years to be able to feel that with you again.

I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost that wore a tie. A hobo.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.

I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news.

I think people realise that I'm happy with what I've achieved.

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.