"Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not."

“I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process is what fuels my mind and informs me, raises new questions, and gives my work resonance.”

“I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!”

“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”

“We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.77, New World Library

“And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.”

“It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.”

Source : "Leslie Nielsen, 84, Romantic Hero Turned Comic, Dies" by Anita Gates, www.nytimes.com. November 28, 2010.

“Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.”

“I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!”