"If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile."

“Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country”

“I have platonic relationships with my guy friends. There's some friends that I've kissed or whatever, but it was always just once.”

Source : Pinstripe Magazine Interview, February 07, 2011.

“It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.”

“John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there.”

Source : "Interview with John Byrne: Editor and Founder of Rawstory.com". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. June 29, 2007.

“I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.”

“simplicity is the key of elegance”

“When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.”

“Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.”

Source : Karen Traviss (2011). “True Colors: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.38, Del Rey