"To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers�or both." -- Elizabeth Charles

"No artist is ahead of his time. He �is� his time; it is just that others are behind the times." -- Martha Graham, From The Observer, July 8, 1979.

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train." -- Oscar Wilde

"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry." -- W. B. Yeats

"In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." -- Andy Warhol

"Literature is news that STAYS news. " -- Ezra Pound,

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. " -- Charlie Parker

"What is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations? " -- Lewis Carroll, From the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper that we may record our emptiness. " -- Kahlil Gibran, From Sand and Foam