Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

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.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.

But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.