"Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does."

“Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.”

Source : "Angelina Jolie Delivers Inspirational Speech to Misfit Kids Everywhere" By Nora Crotty, www.elle.com. March 29, 2015.

“If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.”

“It is not good for man to be alone. Hitherto all things [in Genesis] that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.”

“I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.”

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

“Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.”

Source : Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

“There is more to me than my ***** and my boyfriends.”

“This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh will become part of our national dialogue about taxes and freedom. And it’s funny as hell. Author Jim Greenfield is a cross between Ayn Rand and Monty Python. If enough people read this hilarious ‘man versus state’ book, the IRS will be put out of business, which is okay with me.”