"They showed each other that it was alright for their hearts to come out and play; that it was alright to feel close to someone; that love didn't always end in heartbreak."

“The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.”

Source : Bode Miller (2005). “Bode: Go Fast, Be Good, Have Fun”, p.284, Villard

“In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.”

“Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex.”

“I've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.”

“More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.”

“Music doesn't need to be perfect, but you'll know when it's right.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com

“I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.”

“[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!”