A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

As we celebrate the evolution of the life of one so special, we embrace the meaning of life, itself.

I have always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

I think Im pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it's going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.