I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48)

Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)

[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213)

I wanted to fix things, obviously. You know it’s like… the planets are out of alignment when we’re fighting.

The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.

Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.