Don't whine about your poverty and brainless labor. You can read, can't you? Get thee to a library and foment rebellion - in both inner and outer worlds.

It's odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever.

How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another.

Whenever I get a chance, I'm trying to take the extra base and make them make a play on me. I'm not going to stop looking for the extra base unless the scoreboard tells me.

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.

Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

With my schedule, I don't have much time to get to yoga classes, but I do keep a mat in my trailer and practice for a few minutes most days. It keeps me centered.