If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.

Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.

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

Sometimes the heart demands.

We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.

Control is an advertising concept.

Intimacy, finally, had got the better of us.

We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity.

Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

I always drew. I don't remember a time when I didn't draw. And I actually drew comics from the age of maybe ten through twelve.

Surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself!