It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged.

Maybe I should see things as they really are and not as I want them to be.

It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized. It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to. In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

In all things seek to know God's Will and when known obey at any cost.

I'd decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can't deal with you.

I don't like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there's a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem.

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.

The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.