"I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing."

“My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.”

Source : Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.30, Random House

“I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline”

“I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.”

Source : "Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Religion in Russia". Interview with Hanuu Haukka. Translation by Alexei Salapatov, www.forerunner.com. May 1, 1996.

“There is no doubt that man is a competitive animal and there is no place where this fact is more obvious than in the ring. There is no second place. Either you win or you lose. When they call you a champion, it's because you don't lose. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body.”

“After wisdom comes wit.”

“Music is everything to me. Without music, I wouldnt be here in America now, and I would have been a completely different person. It made me who I am today.”

“Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.”