How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.

In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

I tried to walk into Target, but I missed. I think the entrance to Target should have people splattered all around.

Yaknow you gotta stay up with current s**t, b. I watch the news. I read a lot. All that s**t. Everything helps. You never know it's helping until you start writing and s**t.

Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.