Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Life is a disease.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

I guess what they say is true. Anything the government wants to hide, they stick it in New Mexico

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Remember, it's not what you do but that you do something that matters.

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"

In relationships it is best to assume nothing.

I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible.

Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men.

Money is small and the soul stands tall. All those who don't realize this, fall.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.