Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.

No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly, careworn and industrious but making no significant contribution.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

As much as love is the source of power for those who are centred in their hearts, as much fear is the source of illusionary power for those who insist on being led by their heads alone.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

I get $13 [a week] now, because I’m 13.

A man is sometimes lost in a dust of his own raising.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing.

You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.

I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.