I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!

If you are not willing to give a less experienced qualified professional a chance, don't complain you are charged double for a job worth half.

looking for the pi in my onion

Make yourself indispensable and you'll be moved up. Act as if you're indispensable and you'll be moved out.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.

When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful and new.

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.