I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

Do not become self-absorbed, but become self-aware.

Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Movies are romantic fantasies.

People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me.

If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.