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"In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present."
"My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine."
"I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things."
"I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business."
"I love a statement by the apostle Paul, in the Book of Philippians in the Bible. I think the Corinthians had been writing to Paul, telling him that old men were chasing young women, nobody was tithing - and all that must have run Paul crazy. He wrote back and said, "If there be anything of good report, speak of these things." That's one of my principles.It's another discipline that I encourage myself to employ - to, as much as possible, say the courteous thing, and then be it."
"I live in an atmosphere of music."
"Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me."
"I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe."
"If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed."
"Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future."
"Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication."
"When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess."
"Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together."
"There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity."
"Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up."
"Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right."
"One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things."
"Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity."
"You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage."
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself."