"I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie."

“But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.”

Source : Carole Maso (2006). “The Art Lover”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

“Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.”

Source : "The South: Not all Bubbas and banjos" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. April 14, 2012.

“The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.”

“I think actors, they maybe want more approval than I'm used to giving. Everybody does. Everybody needs a hug you know, all the time. I'm not very good at that. I could get better at that.”

Source : "Exclusive: Tim Miller Talks Deadpool Development & X-Men Universe". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. November 5, 2015.

“We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield

“But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

“Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.”

“I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.”