"A perfect day for me would just be a day that goes the way I plan."

“Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.”

Source : "Reimagining the Story of Newsies headshot" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

“There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.”

“Because I have the scar, people are like, "Who did you play in the film?," and I tell them, "The girl with the scar," and then they're like, "Oh, yeah!" I think most people expect me to have the scar.”

“Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.”

“The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.”

Source : "What is this foolish lust for uncertainty?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

“Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.”

Source : "Get Fuzzy". Comic Strip, August 15, 2007.

“I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.”

“What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.”

Source : Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.16, Vintage