"My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to write to me."

“I was already set for life when I met her.”

Source : "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.

“I think it's a big disservice to our country and to our democracy to continue to raise these doubts.”

“Acting is not just something I love but a part of who I am.”

“I look around me and I don’t see any rock’n’roll at the moment. Instead it’s all choreography and stylists and wigs and stuff. It’s like they’re afraid to let the music breathe. No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day. We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too. We didn’t have no dancers, we didn’t have no goddamn wigs.”

Source : "Ronnie's spectre" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.

“David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.”

“Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.”

“Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.”

“Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.”