In youth, we run into difficulties. In old age, difficulties run into us. - Beverly Sills

You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.