"You are most powerful when you are most silent...."

“When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.”

Source : "Jane Lynch on How She Almost Wreck-It Ralph -ed Her Career". Interview with Jim Hill, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

“The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.”

“Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.”

Source : Peter Shaffer (1993). “Amadeus: A Drama”, Samuel French, Inc.

“Across from me at the next row of supports Jim raised his hand and touched his fingers to his thumb a few times, imitating an opening and closing beak. Negotiate. He wanted me to engage a lunatic who had already turned four people into smoking meat. Okay. I could do that. “Alright, Jeremy!” I yelled into the night. “Give me the salamander and I won’t cut your head off!” Jim put his hand over his face and did some shaking. I thought he was laughing, but I couldn’t be sure.”

“If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.”

“The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.”

“Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.”

“Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.”