I never like to think of anything from an ending point.

You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.

When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.

I've learned a lot about putting a show up in Vegas. You can't just all of a sudden put up a show here and do well. Nobody does.

If you want to see theater you go to New York.

I'm very rarely beyond words, and I am right now.

Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.

I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.

Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

Once you get a couple of records in, you kinda vibe out then you see what a full length is.