At the end of the day, I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. If that makes me an outlaw, so be it. I’ve been called worse.

Fairytales have rules. We may never understand them but they've been hammered into our heads since infancy. Eventually, even the rebels conform.

within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.

Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.

I havent seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.