I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Oliver Stone

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

C.S. Lewis

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Igor Stravinsky

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for.

Oscar Wilde

She laughs at my dreams, but I dream about her laughter.

The Click Five

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Leo Buscaglia

Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.

Alfred Hitchcock

It is difficulties that give birth to miracles.

Dr. Sharpe

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

Katherine Dunham

Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Leacock