Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.
When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.
To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.
I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.
With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.
But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth , and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other
The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.
That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here. ' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.