If a castle gets destroyed, you just build a new one. If you wanted me to I'd build them over and over. Let's build them together.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

And what's with the shirt? You think you're in Fiji?" "It's like being on vactaion. all of the time.

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

To know and not to act is not to know.