If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.

Day or night, good or bad…all things from within.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is

People get hired based off of a certain look or something like that and they have no intention of paying their dues or even respecting the business. It's not a good idea to do that.

Soul development should take precedence over all things.

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.