Before I realized I had faults, I was already joking about it, to get attention. By the time I went to high school, I had a pretty practiced routine down.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works.

I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word.

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.