The fact that I can travel AROUND the world doing what I love is such a BLESSING. I've learned that traveling is such an important thing; there's so many beautiful things out there and we get worried about such LITTLE things.

There's a lot of NOISE in the world. And one of the beautiful THINGS about doing THEATER and film is the ABSENCE of that noise or, perhaps, the adding of that noise where it's helpful in telling the story. I'm ALWAYS trying to get rid of that noise. The more you do it, the better you get.

I have kept a LOT of BEAUTIFUL THINGS, including some GORGEOUS Valentino from the '90s.

There are BEAUTIFUL THINGS about the SPORT of BOXING and there are UGLY things.

I think one of the most BEAUTIFUL things about YOUTUBE is that it MAKES the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all DIFFERENT, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

I THINK that's one of the beautiful things about this genre is that everyone who's in it isn't in it to make a million bucks and be popular, because that's not ALWAYS our M.O. Really, I think the last time that ROCK was truly in the mainstream was probably a point in time in the '90s when there was a lot of alternative that was on the pop charts.

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal FEELING - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing SAINT Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's LIKE a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run AWAY from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

Lyric poetry is, of course, MUSICAL in origin. I do know that what HAPPENED to poetry in the twentieth CENTURY was that it BEGAN to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have DONE beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.

One of the beautiful things about having KIDS is I had no IDEA how much it will MAKE you LOOK into yourself and who you are and what you believe in and what your past was like and all that KIND of stuff. I think it's made me really look at life in a much more intense way.

For me, decorating perfection means ECLECTIC styles and COLLECTIONS of beautiful things LIKE pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.

The PLEASURE we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very BEAUTIFUL THINGS.

I'm a big believer than a GREAT bit is a great bit - if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really POLISH and perfect, and they're BEAUTIFUL THINGS when they're done.

I've gained a lot from James Joyce, TOLSTOY, Chekhov and R. K. Narayan. While writing, I try to see if the STORY is going to radiate spokes. Their literature has always DONE that and gifted me BEAUTIFUL things.

It's one of the BEAUTIFUL things about Australia that people do GET to share this LIFE here, away from TROUBLE.