"Drug-use is a terminal disease."

“No furniture is so charming as books.”

Source : Quoted in Lady Holland, Memoir (1855)

“If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.”

“A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.”

“Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.”

“The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.”

Source : "Old masters and new friends" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2003.

“What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?”

“No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.”

“Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.”