A gust of wind rattles the window, and I look out. Leaves are whooshing all over the place, flying past horizontally as if they have engines of their own.

But you're an artist. you should know there's more to a story than the part happening right now.

I love early snow now, though. Especially snow that happens when you least expect it and just sprinkles down for a while. It feels like a secret.

The laws of physics say if there’s a party, Isla will eventually end up dancing on a table.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on.

Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.