"No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time."

“I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.”

“Things can get very lovey and feasty with a bunch of stimulated hams.”

Source : "My Heart Belongs". Book by Mary Martin (p. 268), 1976.

“We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.”

“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“But the idea is to provoke and persuade, not to soothe. And the best way to make an argument is to make it, straightforwardly, honestly, passionately, without regard to whether people will like you afterward.”

“We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.”

Source : "Steve Kazee, ‘Once’ Star, Hits New York’s 54 Below With Original Alt-Country Show". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

“When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.”

“There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.