"I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story."

“Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.”

Source : John Stoltenberg (2005). “Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Social Justice”, p.7, Routledge

“I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.”

“Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.”

“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.”

Source : "Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs". Book by Adam Woolever, 1891.

“If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Levon Helm from Apr 24, 2014

“Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.”

“If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”

“Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.”