A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

at home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.

Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don’t want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill.

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

Most of TV works this way: You try to get something up and running, and once you do, you just try to keep it going, because there's a lot of money involved.

I think with The Magicians, the Harry Potter and Narnia influences are obviously there.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Why wouldn't we consider doing to Islamic extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans?

I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.