"When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry."

"Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for."

"From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound."

"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"

"Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time."

"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."

"All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it."

"As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles."