Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.

Don’t live a day without your spiritual nourishment

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

The world will be saved by beauty.

I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

My job is to make people happy. And the people that I make happy, make me happy.

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back.