I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

If the sun never set, we would have no perception of the vast depths of space, which become visible only at night when we are able to see what is obscured by the bright daylight

We always talk about human salvation. But we must first decide whether we deserve salvation?

You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.

A backward glance can often lift the heart.

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.

I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.

Well, some people create their own opportunities; others go where opportunities are the greatest; others fail to recognize opportunity when they are face to face with it.