As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.

Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

pain can work form the outside in.

In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.

To her eyes, used to diversity, there was a troubling uniformity about them all, something that spoke of isolation, and a dull and thoughtless cruelty.

So here my check. Overdue and overdrawn. Cash it in hell.

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

In that country, rich or poor, a man was free... So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.