Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest.

In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.

We tear ourselves inside out for something the world may love, then base our worth on that.

We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.

Great joy comes from God.

Leadership. Applies for weak and strong ones.

I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame.How could I count my blessingswhen I didn't know their names?

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

Ever since I was little I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going.

I felt like I was a natural [in The Simpsons].

The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.