Don't you know. I am a ticking time bomb. I'm going to explode. This time, I may never be able to recover from it!

...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.

The only thing I'm afraid of losing... is you.

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a ‘Sopranos,'