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.

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.

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.

The sizzle I felt being near him was so intense, but I couldn't figure out if they were fireworks or warning flares.

A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten

Master I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.

I've got my mind set on you. But it's gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it's gonna take plenty of money.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family.

I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.