I remember preparing for my audition on the plane to L.A. — I was drawing all these weird vampire pictures and I am sure the gorgeous ladynext to me thought I was very odd.

Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life.

I am moving as one with the universe.

A woman's strength comes from finding solace in peace and earning respect in silence...

I wander cowboy sidewalks of wood, wearing a too-small hat, filled with remorse for the many lives I failed to lead.

Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.

Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

When a watch is broken you take it apart to analyze what is wrong with it. When a technique does not work, if you analyze it carefully you can always find out what is wrong.

Listen to presences inside poems.

It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.