I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?

There's a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years, " Flynn said. "Any time it turns up, strange things happen.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

Without risk, there can be no growth.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

What comes from the heart lands on the heart creatively.

I like the anthology concept. I wish more shows would do it.

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.