Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell..."Proximity without intimacy, " he said.

Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into cab, every runner along the river, every motorcycle coming and going.

It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.

It isn't you, ' he says, as though you're to be comforted by the irrelevant role you play in your own life.

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself, ' as though I had any idea who that might be.

My heart's a dance of fear.

Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

When you have a great and difficult task something perhaps almost impossible if you only work a little at a time every day a little suddenly the work will finish itself.

Tragedy is a literary concept.

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.