"The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now!"

“It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.”

“Nobody is going anywhere in 10 years.”

“Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.”

Source : Quoted by Wolfgang Sandberger (1996) in the liner notes to the Juilliard String Quartet's "Intimate Letters". Sony Classical SK 66840,

“I have a really low boredom threshold.”

“Elvis Presley - his music, his movies, his photos. I come across a new image of him every day and try to imagine what he was thinking, what inspired him. His talent and beauty were just incredible, and his passion for life, family, and friends inspires me.”

Source : "RHOBH’s Kristen Taekman: Parenting, Collaborating, Evolving". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Designing Woman was written for the screen.”

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

“There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.”

Source : JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

“I have this problem where it's like'I can never stop thinking. For instance, I find myself obsessing over the treatment of black women and girls by black men'the fact that black men have a special prejudice against black women and generally don't protect them or attempt to understand them, and I cry an awful lot about that.”