"Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out.""

“The hardest part about storytelling is knowing what happens in the end.”

“Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.”

“I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.”

Source : "New Strategy Vindicates Ex-Army Chief Shinseki" by Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2007.

“It's fun, working with different people, everybody works differently. When I have time off from music, I want to make other music. That's what I do, that's what's fun, that's what makes me happy.”

Source : "For The Record: Quick News On Justin Timberlake, Xzibit, Ja Rule, Michael Jackson, Jamie Lynn Spears & More". www.mtv.com. April 15, 2005.

“If you actually read the Bible, you can see there's a whole lot more information in there than the way we interpret the Bible. Because there are single lines in the Bible where if you just take them at face-value, they don't make any sense whatsoever in the world we see, we know, and we understand.”

“If you don't act on life, life will act on you”

“I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.”

Source : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.

“The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.”