I have a love/pain relationship with her. Love that caused more pain and pain that changed me.

I’m . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.

Learn to bring peace into life to still the chaos. Accentuate the joy of your heart, experiencing a life of bliss.

Life is an expression of the choices we make.

Inner contentment liberates the soul

Advice to son: Never confuse "I love you" with "I want to marry you."

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

Wrath clapped his brother on the shoulder. On the whole, though, the SOB was a total keeper. “Forgiven, forgotten.” “Feel free to hammer me anytime.” “Believe me, I do.

For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.