Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

Right now I may not have it all, but I know my future is bright because as long as I live there is hope for my situation.

Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.

True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.

I literally and truly don't care how many points I score. I get far more satisfaction out of doing the other things that make us winners.

Fifteen years ago, I really give up American market.

There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Superman and Lois Lane.

What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular.

Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite