Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rudeAnd fled to the silence of sweet solitude.

In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That love belongs to sin and death.

O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away

O lead me onward to the loneliest shade, The darkest place that quiet ever made, Where kingcups grow most beauteous to behold And shut up green and open into gold.

I hate the very noise of troublous man Who did and does me all the harm he can. Free from the world I would a prisoner be And my own shadow all my company.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night.

Sometimes the issue isn't that your problems are so big, it's that you see yourself as being so small.

Is it a bad sign when someone asks you about the person your dating and a tear falls from your eye as you leap into oncoming traffic?

The truth is it's fun to be up there and know that you're in your underwear. Even though I know I'm exploiting my sexuality in a certain way, it's fun! It boosts my ego.

Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.

The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.