Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.

Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.

Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.

My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

I grew up doing musical theater.

It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.

The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

Don't ever fret over married children; they will take care of themselves.