The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.

You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…

You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.

If something cannot be done to check, or at least to modify, our monstrous worship of facts, art will become sterile and beauty will pass away from the land.

Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.

Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.

It is important to combine structural reforms and good fiscal stewardship with a growth strategy, because when your economy's growing and more revenue's coming in, that helps relieve debt.

You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not.

I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us [artists] different, and long may that continue.

Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.