I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.

I know this sounds kind of crazy, but I think we're all actors.

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.

I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.

The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.

When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

The poem must resist the intelligenceAlmost successfully.

Where true dignity and real freedom are undermined, real self least exists!

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

Put on the new man by renewing your mind with God's Word and submitting your body to the authority of that Word.

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.