Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.

I have such a passion because I adore animals so much.

When you give a gift to one of God's children, you give a gift to God.

When chopping onions, just chop onions.

Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.