"My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter."

-- Sly Stone

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“I like the boundaryless potential you get when you make work for a context that is open to interpretation. Thinking about an art context is too claustrophobic, though. I always hope that at least half my audience is not directly related to the art world. I use art as a balancing act. It's a good way of avoiding everyday chores and social obligations.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives worthwhile. My teacher, and one of the founders of the Pratt industrial design program, Rowena Reed Kostellow, said, "Pure, unadulterated beauty should be the goal of civilization." From a pragmatic point of view, for something to be beautiful, it has to work. In order to make this idea clearer I have combined the ideas of beauty and function into one word: Beautility.”
“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet andâ€”somehowâ€”the wine.”
“Sometimes Thomas Mackee will stick an earphone into my ear and ask me to listen to a song. When I get over the revulsion of putting something in my ear that's been in his, I sit back and let the music take over, and for a half hour there's something comforting about someone's heart beating at the same rhythm as mine.”

Source : Patrick Carman (2011). “The Land of Elyon #4: Stargazer”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.
“Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.”

Source : Neil Peart (2002). “Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road”, p.354, ECW Press
“I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.”

Source : Joseph Robinette, Beatrix Potter (1994). “The Adventures of Peter Rabbit and His Friends: A Full-length Play Based on the Life and Stories of Beatrix Potter”, p.71, Dramatic Publishing
“It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved.”
“God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin!”

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