But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

Not to discover the love of God is to be lost in life

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

You always kill the one you love.

I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them

Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

Poetry is an act of peace.

The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse.