Remember that happiness is a way of travel not a destination.

Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.

It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

Just believe in yourself and work really hard. And when doors open, take advantage of every opportunity you can.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Therein lies the rub of a place like Berkeley Bowl. You get seduced by an 11-pound apple that turns out to be a fake watermelon with an anus.

I did my dissertation on Kafka.

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.