Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

If a boy can manage to have coffee with me during the apocalypse, I know he cares. There’s not a speck of doubt in my mind. He must care.

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.

Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.

It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.