"I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to."

“There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.”

Source : Steve Allen (2001). “Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture”

“So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.”

Source : "Emmy-winning writer-producer David E. Kelley". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. March 8, 2012.

“Well, I would love it if they could take all the guns away. Unfortunately, you can’t do that so you hope that good people in the world have them to protect the people who can’t protect themselves,”

“Spiritual power is generated within temple walls, and sent out to bless the world ... Every home penetrated by the temple spirit enlightens, cheers, and comforts every member of the household. The peace we covet is found in such homes. Indeed, when temples are on earth, the whole world shares measurably in the issuing light; when absent, the hearts of men become heavy, as if they said, with the people of Enoch's day, 'Zion is fled'" (See Moses 7:69).”

“The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.”

“People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.”

Source : "Interview: Gretchen Mol (The Notorious Bettie Page)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. April 14, 2006.

“If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”

Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

“The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.”