It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously.

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

Keep your identity small.

If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.

Celebrate and appreciate people that cannot reward you

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

I am drawn to roles that are strong, intelligent, and a little edgy.

The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.

Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.