"Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp."

“There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.”

Source : Jane Kenyon, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1999). “A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem”, Graywolf Pr

“I'm not trying to brainwash my critics. If they're critics, they're critics, and that's their job to be critical, but I certainly enjoy the involvement I have with my fans. I enjoy the time I get to spend with them, and I don't waste time with someone stubborn who is not going to come around.”

“Don't judge your running by your speed.”

“If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?”

“I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple that to be complicated during solos.”

“I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.”

“I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.”

Source : "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.