“I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.”

“I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.”

“I'm not focused on what other people think of me.”

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.”

“When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.”

“I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?”

“If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.”

“Moreover, in my own way, I have discerned in pure Being the involution of all forms. As felt, pure Being may be indeterminate, but as conceived reflectively it includes all determinations: so that when deployed into the realm of essence, infinite or indeterminate Being truly contains entertainment for all eternity.”

“In his biggest sacrifices, man finds the biggest fulfillment”

“faith in the intellect...is the only faith yet sanctioned by its fruits”

“Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.”

“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy”

“The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.”

“Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable.”

“To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.”

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.”

“The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.”

“Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.”

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”

“Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.”

“Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.”

“Suddenly, it seems ridiculous that we just came from a city airport named for Columbus, a terrible navigator who insisted to his dying day that he was in India—which is why people here are called Indians. As the Native women in Houston said, “It could have been worse—he could have thought he was in Turkey.” 

“White people should have sued for being culturally deprived in a white ghetto. When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.”