Critics should find meaningful work.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

It doesn't matter where she looks, there are always the beautiful imperfections of a marriage.

we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.

I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I have nothing to say. I don't consider it writer's block; I just don't have anything to say.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.