Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

Every journey starts with fear.

Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

Space is limitless, and so is our appetite to master it.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin it's almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

This poet is a griot in search of a village.

You want one civil war, brah?

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.