Nice is different than good.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

Johnny Depp's performance is quite remarkable. Sweeney's desire for revenge and the simmering anger and hurt that he feels carry the story forward, and Johnny finds the most remarkable variety within that narrow set of emotions. The intensity is at a boil all the time and he never drops it. It's real anger.

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.