"A conscience without regrets ~ to live life without having to say you're sorry."

"If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake," Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, "I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression."

"She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!"

"We are the sum total of the decisions we have made."

"God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell."

"You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you."

"I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!"

"If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear."

"Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?"

"Sublime wonders lie in store,I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom, an empirewith more grandeur than before ..."

"If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war."

"The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations."

"It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity."

"There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds."

"(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men."

"I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd."

"While you're singing something romantic, I can't get the lyrics to 'Love and Marriage' out of my head, and that tune always reminds me of the jingle from Jeopardy."

"A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking."

"There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table."

"Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought."

"Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion."

"They say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected."

"Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow."

"By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth."

"There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!"

"If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what's right."

"It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine."

"Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'."

"Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law."

"What you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right."

"Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome."

"It's the unknown that draws people."

"Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible."

"It's just another one of those things I don't understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity."

"Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner."

"So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love."

"What was that? Valentine's Day? Her heart gave a little skip at the thought, she had never spent it in a romantic way before, usually the day meant sending and receiving cute Cupid cards and heart shaped sugar candies, but it was all in a platonic celebration of friendship. This time, it would not be like that, it would be ... special."

"In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us."

"You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, 'Well done."

"Love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies."

"To be, or not to be: what a question!"

"Stop teasing you two, Suzy jumped in, "not all of Kathy's ideas are wacky."Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?"

"They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash."

"Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war."

"If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees."

"It was exciting to be off on a journey she had looked forward to for months. Oddly, the billowing diesel fumes of the airport did not smell like suffocating effluence, it assumed a peculiar pungent scent that morning, like the beginning of a new adventure, if an adventure could exude a fragrance."

"I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?"

"There's nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look."

"Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot."

"Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables."