Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.

Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.

Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.

Not thou, White rose, but thy Ensanguined sister is The dear companion of my heart's Shed blood.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.

What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?

This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Rita Haywood gave good face.

Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.