With every line he teaches her, the world grows a little wider. She had never known before how words could sing, how a turn of phrase could unlock a window in her mind.

What they want, of course, isn't what you can give them. What you're selling is the hope you can.

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.

Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

To me, the only reason for guns in civilian hands is for sporting purposes.

I don't know anything about baseball.