And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems.

In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as well as anyone, but I would write kidney instead of nephric. I insisted on using English.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.

Hillary Clinton has built a huge machine. Donald Trump's asset is people on Facebook and twitter. He can communicate with them eight or 10 times a day with no money. This is a different world.

I don't think I've ever done anything that's completely the same, yet.

I'm higher than I expected.

My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee; Betwixt the stirrop and the ground, Mercy I askt, mercy I found.