"In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing."

-- Evelyn Lau

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“There's really no question that there is an anguish associated with the inability to marry in this life. We feel for someone that has that anguish. I feel for somebody that has that anguish. But it's not limited to someone who has same-gender attraction.”

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“But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken like a woman. This always begins with a rejection, done gracefully or rudely according to the woman's disposition, and in the end she will grant herself only to someone, who aspires her soul as well as her body. She will belong to the one, who knows how to uncover her with the utmost delicacy.”
“I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.”
“The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.”
“You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.”
“You never answer a question nobody does.”
“There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.”
“When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.”

Source : Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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