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“Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory.”
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“As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.”
Source : "At Home With Myself in a World of AIDS" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.
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“I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.”
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“No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.”
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“Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.”
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“Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of ***** and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.”
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“A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.”
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“We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.”
Source : "This much I know: Dionne Warwick". Interview With Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.