"It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things."

“By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.”

“Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.”

Source : Sean Stephenson (2009). “Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself”, p.19, John Wiley and Sons

“I came to realize, along with being attracted to girls, I had similar feelings for boys. All the people close to me have known for years who I am. Yet it took time to embrace that other part of who I always was.”

“Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.”

“Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.”

“No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.”

Source : "Narciso Rodriguez: Designer Of Michelle Obama’s Election Night Dress Looks Back". Interview with Rachel Strugatz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

“And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.”

Source : Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

“Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."”