"To me the ambiguity is, maybe our perception of ourselves is always going to be different than somebody else's perception. There will always be that disparity."

“I think support of the straight community is very important and I think there has been a profound shift in public opinion seen reflected in many ways. We do not need straight people to speak for us but we do want straight people to stand with us.”

Source : Source: www.bilerico.com

“I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.”

Source : "All in the Timing". Interview with Scott Proudfit, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2001.

“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”

“I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.”

“I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.14, Open Road Media

“Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.”

“How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!”

“When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.”