"You are who you associate with.  Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are.  If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do."

“Frankly, in order for us to have a healthier arts eco-system funders need to insulate their relationships with artists from the influence of moneyed interests, lobbying groups, and politics. The funders shouldn't have to parse their words, or say one thing to one group and another to another. One statement, freedom of expression, end of story.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company.”

“While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.

“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”

“Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.”

Source : 1985 La Tristesse de Saint Louis: Swing Under the Nazis, ch.4.

“As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.”

“It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.”

“Reagan loved and respected his father, Jack Reagan. But if there was a father figure to Reagan in the religious sense, it was Ben Cleaver. What Reagan's father didn't provide spiritually, from a fatherly point of view, Cleaver did.”