I believe that if you don't have systems, you don't have a business - you simply have a job for yourself. My challenge has been to build those systems in a new restaurant setting.

I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant objections.

I hate you."I love you."You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have."I'm trying not to be.

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

When you get into individual characters certainly there's been things that have been updated .

I’m not trying to play the guitar. I’m trying to play music.

I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'