"If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us."

“How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!”

“The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.”

“Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.”

Source : "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.

“When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Aug 06, 2015

“I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself... yeah right”

“Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.”

Source : 'To His coy Mistress' (1681) l. 1

“Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.”

“Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.”