"In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people."

“The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.”

“Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.”

“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.”

“The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity.”

“My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.”

“As much as we look up at the stars and know there is more than life on earth, the divinity of dogs is just as unexplainable and profound. They may be the purest example of divine love in an earthly soul many of us ever experience. If we take their lead, open our hearts, and embrace their love, we may just find our own journey a lot more enlightening.”

“I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.”

“In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.”

Source : "New Again: Matt Dillon". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan and Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2013.