I guess [coming out publicly] seems like a weight off my shoulders. I’ve been playing a lot better than I’ve ever played before. I think I’m just enjoying myself and I’m happy.

We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

For those of you in the administration, who are coming after me ... remember, you've broken three [of the 10 Commandments], let's not make it four; thou shalt not kill.

But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I'm floating.

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss.

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.