"I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now."

“Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.”

Source : Marion Dane Bauer (1992). “What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.”

“As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead,”

Source : "Berwick announces run for governor" by Joanne Kenen, www.politico.com. June 17, 2013.

“The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)”

“Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.”

Source : "Hal Sparks, ‘Gay-Adjacent’ Star of Queer As Folk , Explains Why He Supports LGBT Equality" by Charlotte Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

“Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.”

Source : "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

“The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.”

“The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.”