"Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards."

“Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.”

“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.126

“For Beatrice - you will always be in my mind, in my heart and in your grave.”

“Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.”

“For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.”

“How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.”

“Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.”

Source : "Interview with Chef Paul Prudhomme". StarChefs.com Interview, www.starchefs.com. October, 2011.

“Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.”

Source : Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.504, Zebra Books