"It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary."

“The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.”

“An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.”

“One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.”

Source : "Actor Lukas Haas dons a hospital gown for MCR clip, works on debut LP" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. October 19, 2006.

“Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Conde Lucanor, 1922.

“Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.”

“Not everyone can see things the way you see it, so let go. You can't see everything the way they see it either, so let go again.”

“All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.”

“The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one.”