"How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival."

“I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.”

Source : Peter C. Bunnell, Emmet Gowin, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Princeton University. Art Museum (1983). “Emmet Gowin: photographs, 1966-1983 : September 17-November 13, 1983, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington”

“The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!”

“Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being a part of it. All the other races have pacers to get you to a Boston qualifying time.”

“My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.”

“I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.”

“I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.”

Source : "Alessandro Nivola Talks Janie Jones and Redemption". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 01, 2011.

“I love this quote when Valerian the King of the Nymphs says to his mate Shaye; "I am Valerian, leader of the nymphs. You may call me Oh God, that is what the other surface dwellers have preferred to call me".”

“My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.”