The mind is like dishwater, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

I do not believe in decent women who do not know how to play the piano.

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.

It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

I'll have my double chins in privacy.

The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes better for my game than getting out of control.

Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.