"I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while."

“When a piece gets difficult, make faces.”

Source : Quoted in Oscar LevantTheUnimportance of BeingOscar (1968).

“I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.”

“Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.”

“Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'”

“The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.”

Source : "Rewards of Passion, Sheer Poetry (The Beauty)". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1981.

“And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others”

“The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.”

Source : Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?”, Verso Books

“If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.”