Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage.

Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular?

If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five or six. People ask how I can play with all those rings, and I reply, Very well, thank you.

You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it.

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

I don't give concerts, I put on a show.

I swear, when that woman dies, she'll be deader than everybody else.~Pattiecake from Laid Out and Candle Lit

They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

I think I would like to discover a new root where people don't get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That'd be interesting.

Theres heaven in the sweet by and by but there is to be victory in the nasty now and now.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.

People keep planning their lives searching security and comfort. This silence is the only security I know those who can understand will understand.

When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.