“Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history your future is unmoored -- we drift. It is art, never war, that carries culture forward.”

“He was born as you see him-happy with the world and his circumstances. Do we all not wish such a life?”

“As we each began our journey, we learned the importance of connecting, of laughing with one another (not at one another), of sharing our lives.”

“I could accept my circumstances, my life, people, and even events around me, without giving my approval or releasing my control over such. I don’t have to like what happened; I just need to accept that it indeed occurred.”

“As long as we draw breath, we owe it to the ones we loved and lost to live out our lives without wasting them on regrets.”

“...the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.”

“If you’re a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.”