Choosing to accept yourself is a political act. An act of liberation.

The sun is the sacred morning light.

Miracles' rely on their observer’s ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer’s failure to notice the observed’s defects.

From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

I dont ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and audience.

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.