Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.

Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.