"[A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways."

“After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said -- The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love. And somehow I'm still alive.”

“Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.”

“Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features which nature distributes among many individuals. From this combination, ingeniously composed, results that happy imitation by virtue of which the artist earns the title of inventor and not of servile copyist.”

“It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.”

“There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.”

“I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.”

“The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.”

“If someday rockets should open the gates to space, then we must be oriented as to its environmental conditions and their possible biological effects. To study this, and to find means of protection, is one of the tasks of space medicine.”