In life we are separated by boundaries political, cultural, ethical, linguistical and psychical. But in death we are all united, for all afterlife is similarly unknown

There are only two classes of people. "The Clear", powered by their confusion and "The Confused", powered by their clarity

Passion warms up the soup of love cold in the vessel of the soul

Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength

The most beautiful of human things are born in the shadows and thrive there and are endangered by light

The forces of desire that sway man's mind are the forces that will eventually destroy him, while a singular love that roots his heart makes him invincible

Human Prejudice is Dark Fate's favourite friend

A woman keeps her kitchen like her heart: Well stocked and labelled and shelved, with lots of air and light, spick and span and filled with love

If I were born a woman, my clothes would be for any man with rough hands to tear down and my body to be made love to by any heart lost enough to love

I look up to as God every person, thing or thought that makes life worth living one day longer

A man who truly loves his wife is loved by the entire world

Beware of people who fall at your feet. They may be reaching for the corner of the rug.

Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.

The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

At the current pace of change, we won't have universal access to education in 100 years, let alone five, and that is unacceptable.

I must have in stock 3000 songs you've never heard.