Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.

Life's too short to be working with divas.

That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

Don't just dream it. Be it!

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

Dance to the music of your soul.

A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

Love is like water. If it doesn't flow, it stagnates.

I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

That's the interesting thing about writing. You can start late, you can be ignorant of things, and yet, if you work hard and pay attention you can do a good job of it.

What we do is a wonder, an art, and we have a responsibility to do it well.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.