Getting bored is not allowed.

I am Eloise. I am six. I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.

Getting bored is not allowed.

I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

Fix your eyes on what you believe and not what you see.

I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!

A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. Even if you bog it down with political allegory, or even if you're doing celebrity allegory. You still need to take the cynical out of it.

Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

There are no kinder, more generous, more welcoming, more hospitable people in America than in the 92 counties of Indiana.

A man without makeup is like a cake without icing.

It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child.

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

We need Grace and forgiveness.

During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches' for ideas that are often later translated to the larger scale of public commissions.

I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.

When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.