Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

As you walk through forestsor the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fearGood friendships you may find

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

People do not die - they kill themselves.