Freedom was the price of privacy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

She wasn't blotto, she was plotting.

From an illustration in her "Animals of a Bygone Era": a Leptictidium, an extinct rabbit-like animal who left no descendants, says: "Too bad, because we were really cute.

Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.

Sell it, don't Smell it.

I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that’s when things changed as far as going to the NFL.

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

There will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts.

Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.