"Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy."

“Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop, “Sestina”

“In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.”

Source : Genevieve Behrend (2013). “Your Invisible Power: Order of Visualization and How to Attract to Yourself the Things You Desire (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

“That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did.”

“All -isms end up in schisms.”

“Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.”

“We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods.”

“My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.”

“There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.”