As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

No matter how much I think, no matter how much I try, I can't fill this void of loneliness in my heart.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities--mob rule.

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.