"I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams."

“I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.”

“The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.”

Source : Claude Debussy, Ferruccio Busoni, Charles Ives (1962). “Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music: Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater”

“On April 2, the nurses started my first round of five intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) infusions. The clear IV bags hung on a metal pole above my head, their liquid trickling down into my vein. Each of those ordinary-looking bags contained the healthy antibodies of over a thousand blood donors and cost upwards of $20,000 per infusion. One thousand tourniquets, one thousand nurses, one thousand veins, one thousand blood-sugar regulating cookies, all just to help one patient.”

Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

“Sing hey! Sing hey! For Christmas Day; Twine mistletoe and holly. For a friendship glows In winter snows, And so let's all be jolly! At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year”

Source : Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)

“Oh, I’ll fight you,” she promised, her eyes clear of shadows. “That’s the way I roll.”

“It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.”

“The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.”