...the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.

Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath the deep waters.

Death is a shadow that always follows the body

There is always a new begining...Doors are unlimited, always open, if one closes and that moment the other opens..

... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

Encores! is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.

The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.

I don't want that to be the headline.

I still visit my village quite often, as my parents and one of my sisters live there, but also I feel the village is more of an isolated, unreal part of me.