I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?

I thought Beauty and the Beast were two people, not one.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

I never believed in God and I will never believe in it.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain.

The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.