"Be here now. It keeps us in a place of love, not fear."

“I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.”

“The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.”

Source : Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

“The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.”

Source : "Lucas Samaras: Father Of The Selfies". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2014.

“There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.”

“I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.”

Source : "Tammy Blanchard: 'Not uptight about anything'". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.deseretnews.com. July 12, 2012.

“The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!”

Source : Ford Madox Ford (2012). “It Was the Nightingale”, p.128, Carcanet

“Said that I was your all and I believed you. That's why it hurts to the core I gotta leave you.”

“Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.”