"But especially, you know, I love the music. This is my purpose. I don't do anything else but music."

“A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.”

“The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.”

“Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.”

Source : Epigrams, X, 23, c. 80 - 104 AD.

“But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruin of the fairest structures of antiquity still displays the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious destruction.”

“We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.”

“Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.”

“I am a lesbian, and it was a later in life recognition of that fact.”

Source : “‘Family Ties’ mom: ‘I am a lesbian’“ by Vidya Rao, www.today.com. December 7, 2012.

“The most important thing for a writer to do is to write. It really doesn't matter what you write as long as you are able to write fluidly, very quickly, very effortlessly. It needs to become not second nature but really first nature to you. And read; you need to read and you need to read excellent books and then some bad books. Not as many bad books, but some bad books, so that you can see what both look like and why both are what they are.”