I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort because, really, there are lots of reasons to look at the chasm. But art and music, these ineffables, they're just - they're the consolations of what human beings can create and make, and delight is accessible, you know, should you care to find it.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.